A 4,000-year-old clay tablet is believed to record the world's oldest known customer complaint from ancient Mesopotamia. A ...

Explore the history of these allegedly 'powerful' ancient spells, from Egyptian love papyri to Greek curse tablets. The post ...

Such a finding would shake up the popular understanding of how the crown has been passed down over the ages and leave ...

From "gaslighting" and "love" to "fascism" and "empathy," these are the words people are most curious about in every U.S.

A hymn praising the city of Babylon and its people, silent for more than a thousand years, has been reconstructed from broken ...

The image of a stable Assyrian kingdom, with an orderly dynastic line and mostly peaceful father-to-son successions, has for ...

In 1922, a British archaeologist named Herbert Weld Blundell was excavating the ruins of Larsa, an ancient city in what is now southern Iraq. Digging through the dust of Mesopotamia, his team ...

New research has revealed that the first kiss in recorded history took place at least 4,500 years ago in Mesopotamian societies.

I don’t know about you, but the last thing I want on a warm summer night is a cup of hot tea, yet that’s exactly what appears to be brewing in the ...