A Play by Chard deNiord," a new work of poetic theater that merges ancient mythology with contemporary artistry. Performances ...

Imagine a world without written records — no books, no laws, no way to document discoveries or communicate ideas across generations. Civilization would be trapped in a cycle of forgetfulness, with ...

Our favorite titles of the year resurrect overlooked histories and examine how the United States ended up where it is today New Research Digital reconstructions are bringing structures to life that ...

SCRIBE STATUE. FOUND: Lagash, Iraq. CULTURE: Sumerian. DATE: ca. 2400 B.C. LANGUAGE: Sumerian. In early 2016, hundreds of media outlets around the world reported that a set of recently deciphered ...

At the site of the ancient Sumerian city of Girsu in present-day Tello, in southern Iraq, stands a mound known as Tablet Hill. In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, French ...

In the early 1800s, a Swiss explorer tricked his way into Petra, the ancient oasis whose location had been a closely guarded secret for centuries. Known as Ed Deir—the Monastery—this building was a ...

Agricultural genetics is the applied study of the effects of genetic variation and selection used to propagate valuable heritable trait combinations in crop plants and farm animals. The discipline ...