A study reveals that Sumer, the cradle of civilization, rose because of natural tidal irrigation that shaped the world’s ...

Mesopotamians, the ancient inhabitants of the land between the Euphrates and Tigris rivers, are credited for many firsts in ...

New research reveals Sumer’s cities may have risen with the tides, rewriting the origin story of the world’s first ...

Alcohol has been around for thousands of years. However, the style of fermentation has changed throughout the ages. These are the oldest alcohols in human history.

Imagine stumbling upon a piece of genuine history while doing something totally mundane, like cleaning out your garage or ...

The oldest religious text in the world date back thousands of years, though many religions were initially passed on through spoken word. These religious texts are some of the oldest in human history.

In today’s era, foreign trade constitutes an important component that paves the way for the progress of any nation. The basis ...

Around 2400 BCE, the Sumerian city-states of Lagash and Umma went to war over irrigation water. Lagash diverted canals feeding Umma’s fields, sparking one of the first documented conflicts over a ...

For Halloween, former research director at Leeds Beckett University, Ruth Robbins, has been looking at the letters and manuscripts of Leeds-born writer W. F. Harvey, which are held in Cultural ...