Explore how ancient accounting systems from Sumeria to Greece tracked trade, taxes, and resources, shaping early economies and laying the foundation for modern finance.

This episode explores the early history of Palestine - from its Neolithic agricultural roots to the rise of Iron Age kingdoms. Learn how the land was known as Canaan, Eretz Yisrael, and eventually ...

TOLEDO, Ohio — Solar eclipses have fascinated humans for millennia, inspiring various religious, superstitious, and scientific explanations. While we now know that the darkness during a total solar ...

People have been getting drunk for millennia. Historical records show that alcohol was an integral part of many early civilizations, from ancient Mesopotamia and Egypt to ancient Greece, China, and ...

Archaeologists have unearthed intriguing evidence of a potential cult site in the Uruk era, one of the earliest urban centers in ancient Mesopotamia, dating back over 5,000 years. This discovery, ...