Berossus, a Babylonian priest writing in Greek, preserved a version of the Sumerian King List that includes rulers said to have lived for thousands of years. But how reliable is this account? In this ...

More than 5,000 years ago, the world’s oldest known writing system emerged in what is now Iraq, establishing the country as the epicenter of recorded human history. […] ...

Around 3300 BC, humans entered a new era that would change history forever. Bronze replaced stone, writing emerged, trade ...

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If not for the work of two scholars, Alice Kober and Michael Ventris, the ancient Greek script Linear B would likely still be ...

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The publication of “Chroma” represents an important shift by museums toward recognizing polychromy and its entanglement with ...