A collection of artefacts collected 2,500 years ago in modern-day Iraq reveal the forgotten world of Mesopotamia, home to many world firsts – including beer production.

For at least 450 years, the Hittites controlled much of modern-day Türkiye and beyond—from close to the shores of the Black Sea to the rivers of Mesopotamia ... in the world’s first peace ...

Idealism, a hunger for power and a wish to prosper have driven some of the earliest efforts to build a world order.

Found in a series of archeological digs in the early 1930s by Sir Leonard Woolley, a tablet was found that stretches back to Mesopotamia, a civilization that birthed some of the world's oldest ...

As Cockerell dug deeper into Jochelman’s past, a whole world began to emerge ... and the technique turned translucent, leaving me staring directly into the story. “A year ago, while I was ...

The line, which is real, was launched as a form of teshuva on Fielder’s Comedy Central show Nathan for You ... between columns and a tabletop map of the world, with flags of various local ...

Today, Iraq’s water crisis and what it means for the world ... And what really struck me is that this used to be a place called the Fertile Crescent. It was Mesopotamia, the land between ...

Earth may not have seven continents after all. From the earliest of grades, schoolchildren around the world have memorized ...

These are some of the most common geographic misconceptions that are both surprising and surprisingly hard to correct. Contrary to the map many of us have in our minds, almost all of South America ...

The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston's summer immersive experience opens Sunday, and the first thing visitors should know about A.A. Murakami's "Floating World ... MFAH marks the show's the U.S ...

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The Peters Projection map claimed to show the world in a more accurate, equal-area fashion. Because Peters’s map showed the size of developing nations more accurately, charitable organizations ...