Kissing is a big part of human culture. According to ancient cuneiform tablets found in Iraq, humans have been smooching ...

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They found a board game from ancient times. They also found remains of buildings and three clay tablets. The clay tablets are the first cuneiform tablets from the Middle Bronze Age found in the ...

Geralt via Wikimedia Commons under CC0 New research analyzing ancient DNA may have finally ... “We know from cuneiform tablets that people such as Hittites spoke Anatoian, but these people ...

Was Jerusalem destroyed in 587 or 607 BCE? Often overlooked in this controversy is some evidence from Herodotus, the ancient Greek historian.

British archaeologist Sir Arthur Evans purchased some ancient stones with mysterious inscriptions on them at a flea market in ...

Although many researchers assume that birthday celebrations date back to the ancient Egyptians, the earliest textual evidence of a birthday party proves these annual events are much older.

Damascus,SANA- The Damascus National Museum is one of the most important in the world and contains archaeological pieces that ...

A pair of landmark studies, published Wednesday in the journal Nature, has finally identified the originators of the ...

Widely implemented in the ancient Middle East, cuneiform, which means “wedge-shaped,” has ... As one of the oldest writing systems in the world, this framework had popular Elamite tablets originating ...