Archaeologists in Iraq have discovered the remains of a 5,000-year-old building that might have been used as a "cultic space" ...

Buried beneath the waters of Quintana Roo, Mexico lies a discovery that breaks the historical timeline wide open — a 12,500-year-old ochre mine carved into limestone by organized hands. These weren’t ...

Archaeologists uncover a monumental 5,000-year-old building in Mesopotamia’s Kani Shaie, revealing Uruk’s cultural reach.

Three groups of Australians became prisoners of the Ottoman Turks in the Middle East. Soldiers were captured on Gallipoli and in Sinai-Palestine. Sailors from the submarine AE2 were captured in the ...

Research has identified the composite bow as the most lethal weapon of the Bronze Age, challenging long-held beliefs about its origins and transforming our understanding of ancient warfare. A new ...

New research reveals Sumer’s cities may have risen with the tides, rewriting the origin story of the world’s first ...

A monumental structure, whose foundations date back to the dawn of urbanization in the Fertile Crescent, has been unearthed at the Kani Shaie site in the Kurdistan region of northeastern Iraq (in the ...

A recently published study in PLOS ONE is reshaping scientific understanding of the rise of urban civilization in ancient ...

The Liberal Democrats were founded in 1988, but we can trace our history back over three hundred years. This page provides a concise history of the Liberal Democrats and our Whig, Liberal and SDP ...

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