Her activism began as a teenager in 1963, when she heard the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. speak. It set her on a path to nonviolent protest.

Study of ancient cuneiform cylinders reveals how Nebuchadnezzar II restored Kish’s ziggurat and linked his rule to Babylon’s ...

Fossils unearthed in Morocco are the first from a little-understood period of human evolution and may be remains of a ...

An international research team reports the analysis of new hominin fossils from the site of Thomas Quarry I (Casablanca, ...

Jawbones and other remains, similar to specimens found in Europe, were dated to 773,000 years and help close a gap in Africa’s fossil record of human origins.

Nebuchadnezzar II claimed divine inspiration for his restoration work, stating that the gods Zababa and Ishtar motivated him to undertake the project. After completing the renovations, he proclaimed: ...

History has long celebrated its ancient world pioneers, yet many great deeds of overlooked figures have faded with their names.

For 6775 years the Assyrians have been an indigenous population of Mesopotamia, with a continuous presence in what is today northern Iraq and the wider region. Our identity is not solely religious, ...

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The Dispilio Tablet, a wooden artifact engraved with linear symbols and dated to around 5260 BC, was discovered in a ...

From ancient sewer systems to the rise of modern sanitation departments, the evolution of resource management has been ...

Its founders argue that the absence of Assyrian history from mainstream digital platforms has left a vacuum, one often filled ...