Astrology, the belief that the positions and movements of celestial bodies can influence human lives and events on Earth, has ...

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India’s coastline, stretching over 7,500 kilometers, has been a hub of maritime trade for millennia. Long before European colonial powers arrived, Indian ports thrived as bustling centers of commerce, ...

ProtoSnap uses computer vision to scan the pixels in a picture of a cuneiform table and compares them to a series of ...

We will learn how archaeologists and codebreakers deciphered these inscriptions as well as the basics of the writing systems themselves, from Mesopotamian cuneiform to Egyptian hieroglyphics to ...

Researchers have discovered an extensive and remarkably well-preserved system of ancient irrigation canals in the Eridu ...

A roughly 4,800-year-old royal Mesopotamian cemetery in eastern Turkey appears to complicate existing theories about how some ...

The translation of ancient Assyrian writing into modern languages was a challenge that had long vexed historians. Three ...

Emerging from communities on the banks of the Tigris, in present-day Iraq, the Assyrians had conquered Babylon and Egypt and ruled in the Mesopotamian region from around 1300-600 B.C. At the dig ...

Researchers previously assumed that some of the graves at the site were royal burials. A new study presents a different ...