At the threshold of written history, when the first civilizations began to consolidate in Mesopotamia and Anatolia, the world ...

Archaeologists have a discovered a strange abundance of teenagers’ remains at “one of the richest” ancient Mesopotamian grave ...

Researchers have found chemical evidence of wine consumption in ancient Troy, confirming a theory by Heinrich Schliemann.

Wine drinking in ancient Troy was not restricted to the upper classes, as has long been supposed – something our new research ...

Archaeologists are unsure why unrelated teenagers were buried in an elaborate Bronze Age tomb but think their age may be a ...

For the first time ever, a team of researchers has found chemical evidence that wine was actually drunk in Troy, verifying a ...

An amateur archaeologist recently encouraged researchers to take another look at the Farley Moor standing stone, which was once part of a bigger ceremonial site ...

Archaeologists in northern France have discovered a vast Bronze and Iron Age settlement that may once have been a regional ...

After the immense international success of "La Disparition de Josef Mengele", Olivier Guez returns with "Mesopotamia" – a novel about Gertrude Bell, a young lady from Victorian high society who became ...

When a vast library of texts amassed by Mesopotamian King Ashurbanipal was burned to the ground about 2700 years ago, the ...

Going big and going early leads to an uptick in public interest and in those necessary donations. Unfortunately, it also ...

Modern historiography has tended to assume that violence was the primary driving force behind the formation of the first ...