Mesopotamia, situated between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers, is recognized as the earliest cradle of civilization due to ...

The Indus Valley civilization, located in present-day Pakistan and India, went through four periods of intense drought, which ...

The world’s first known lock-and-key system, dating back to 4000 BCE in Mesopotamia, shows how ancient people protected their ...

A new scientific study suggests that the sudden collapse of the ancient Indus River Valley civilization, known for its ...

A new book argues that civilizations built on centralized wealth and power contain the seeds of their own destruction.

Chogha Zanbil was first spotted from a surveillance airplane in 1935. The excavated complex was discovered to be one of the few ziggurats built outside Mesopotamia. The ruins of the ancient Elamite ...

DNA extracted from an ancient skeleton in a pot is a genetic mixture of two distinct worlds - ...

China's use of rammed earth to make loess platforms with wooden structures on top, evolved from the Loess Plateau and ...

Under the Belt and Road Initiative, cultural exchanges between China and the UAE have flourished. Mubarak reaffirmed his ...

The institution of marriage has become something of a political battlefield. How did marriage begin and why?

Britain's assignment in 1920 of political power in Palestine to the then-10 percent Jewish minority over the remaining non-Jewish 90 percent violated the principle of self-determination established by ...