Tablets containing economic and administrative content dating back to Third Dynasty of Ur, Old Akkadian and Old Babylonian ...

Slavery, that is, the forced servitude and ownership of a person or group of people was not unique to Greece. In fact, the two oldest pieces of writing are cuneiform tablets from Uruk, modern-day Iraq ...

Museum staff members across Israeli institutions face the challenge of protecting some of the most important artifacts of ...

Excavations on unpromising mounds in the Iraqi desert revealed Sumer’s earliest city. Surviving relics and a rebuilt temple have given experts more clues about the ancient metropolis of Eridu.

The towering Greek philosopher and poet Homer described olive oil as “liquid gold” and the Greek tragedian extraordinaire Sophocles called olives “our sweet silvered wet nurse”. Olive oil is the oil ...

Much of what we know about the city’s early flourishing comes from a remarkable collection of more than 23,000 clay Assyrian tablets discovered at the Turkish site of Karum Kanesh, 600 miles away.

A Mesopotamian myth from nearly 4,000 years ago tells of a man who builds a boat to save the world from a divine flood, long ...

Reality is reality and fantasy is fantasy. Pretending fantasy is reality only works insofar as others are willing to tolerate ...

Paper, invented in China around the 2nd century BCE, did not spread to the rest of the world until much later, as it remained ...

Beneath the rugged mountains of southeastern Iran, archaeologists are carefully unearthing traces of a Bronze Age society ...

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The Emerald Tablets of Thoth the Atlantean Translation & Interpretation by Doreal (Originally published in mimeographed form in the 1930s by a mysterious "Dr. Doreal," these writings quickly became an ...