The oldest known beer style dates back to ancient Sumeria, around 5,000 BCE. The Sumerians brewed a beer-like beverage called “kash”, made by fermenting loaves of barley bread in water. The result was ...

Many ancient human societies loved beer. Bronze-Age Egyptians built factories to brew it. Foragers stored the fermented drink in a cave in Israel about 13,000 years ago. A pre-Incan empire in the ...

New research shows that the rise of Sumer was deeply tied to the tidal and sedimentary dynamics of ancient Mesopotamia. Early ...

If Facebook were around in ancient Sumeria, the goddess Inanna’s relationship status would probably read, “It’s complicated.” The goddess of fertility, warfare, and sex, this powerful figure in ...

This Sunday, we will all dutifully set our clocks back one hour for daylight saving time. But why is our day divided into 24 hours, each hour divided into 60 ...