The oldest cultivated fruit might also be the oldest crop in general, and it comes from the seat of human civlization, ...

A small imprint left on a piece of Neolithic mudbrick in Georgia is helping rewrite the story of one of the world’s most ...

Researchers have identified the world's oldest known beer receipt, a small clay tablet from ancient Mesopotamia detailing ...

Excerpted with permission from the publisher The Indus: Lost Civilizations, Andrew Robinson, published by‎ Macmillan, an ...

Award-winning filmmakers Haya Fatima Iqbal and Nadir Siddiqui take readers inside the epic task of chronicling Mohenjo ...

Mohenjo-Daro has traditionally been dated to around 2600 BCE and is considered one of the world’s earliest planned cities with more than 700 wells and a drainage system that mov ...

The seafarer peoples of the past who mastered the oceans were crucial in laying the foundations upon which civilizations were ...

Pesticides, habitat loss and climate change have taken their toll on the beloved insects. But the experts working with them ...

Those of us who attended sleepaway camp as children recognize the adage about how time feels at summer camp: “A day is like a ...

The city on the Euphrates, once a cradle of civilization, suffered under a succession of recent rulers. Our visit found it ...

Editor's NoteThe earliest snacks are believed to have been discovered in the ancient Mesopotamian civilization. In other words, snacks have ...

A new book explores ancient letters about kings, pleas for help from a bereft mother, classroom exercises and ancient doodles ...