What may surprise you, though, is how well our most ancient ancestors ate. One reason they led quite a healthy life was that ...

Iraqi forces retook control of the site of ancient Nimrud, and since then, reconstruction efforts have been taking place in ...

The latest findings cast light on the history of a major civilization that is considered to be one of the world's first ...

Although we think of our emotions as being controlled by our brains, that does not mean they’re limited to our heads alone.

Researchers found that ancient Mesopotamians associated body parts with emotions, just as we do—but they discovered some ...

A Johns Hopkins archaeologist recycles a 20-year-old hypothesis that small clay cylinders found in an ancient tomb reset the ...

The Master of Information Management and Systems (MIMS) program educates information professionals to provide leadership for an information-driven world. The Master of Information and Data Science ...

The British Museum houses around 130,000 clay tablets from ancient Mesopotamia written in cuneiform script between 3200 b.c. and the first century a.d. Since so few scholars can read the languages ...

a form of written communication quite different from the elaborate writing systems that preceded it, such as Egyptian hieroglyphs or Mesopotamian cuneiform. The shift to simpler alphabets ...

Many ancient board games have been discovered, but there are no rulebooks so we don't know how to play them. Now AI is bringing these games back to life by working out likely rules ...

The history of emotions reveals fascinating shifts in how different cultures conceptualized feelings. In medieval Europe, ...