Mesopotamians, the ancient inhabitants of the land between the Euphrates and Tigris rivers, are credited for many firsts in ...

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 ...

There are a great many things which we use every day, which are so normal that we take them for granted. Gregory Elder, a Redlands resident, is professor emeritus of history and humanities at Moreno ...