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. […] ...

Until now, it was believed that mathematical thinking only began once people gained the knowledge of numbers and writing. However, a new study reveals a potentially earlier origin of math hidden in ...

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

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An 8,000-year-old pottery vessel has revealed that Mesopotamians were using mathematics years before numbers and writing were ...

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

One of the last cities ever founded by Alexander the Great, later dubbed Charax Spasinou, has finally been rediscovered.

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Discover the evolution of economics from ancient times to modern theories that influence global markets, including Adam Smith and Keynesian approaches.