The Metropolitan Museum of Art, working with the Manhattan ... object had been sourced from a site outside of Ur, the ancient capital of Mesopotamia. The artefact cycled through several owners ...

The discovery adds to a growing body of ancient art known in Southeast Asia that changes some long-standing ideas about when and where humans started showing our defining cognitive traits.

Yet, for all its grandeur, this land would eventually come to be ruled by a succession of foreign powers for over 2,500 years, starting with the Assyrians from Ancient Mesopotamia in the 7th ...

In the early 1970s, South African summer sun searing his back, 14-year-old Stephen Townley Bassett dutifully followed his uncle into the shade offered by one of myriad caves dotted among the ...

For decades, three prized items told stories of ancient Mesopotamia from behind museum glass in foreign lands. Now, they are heading home to Iraq as part of a global push to retrieve antiquities that ...

as seen in the clip below. She was asked by whom, and replied, "the Anunnaki," referring to the ancient deities of Mesopotamian mythology. "Yo, are you sure you don't get high?" one of the hosts ...

Egypt says archaeologists have unearthed 3 500-year-old rock art depicting bulls, donkeys and sheep in the Eastern Desert. The Antiquities Ministry said on Wednesday the discovery in the Wadi Umm ...

The Smithsonian’s National Museum of Asian Art (NMAA) in Washington, DC, has deaccessioned from its collection fragments of contested ancient Chinese artefacts known as the Zidanku Silk ...

who ruled from 669 to 631 B.C. He is flanked by the ancient Mesopotamian gods Ashur and Ishtar, and they are followed by a fish deity and a scorpion man. The inclusion of these gods was a surprise ...

The island's exquisite array of flowers, valued for their fragrances, are harvested by Hawaiians for the ancient tradition ... Estes learned the intricate art of lei-making from her grandmother ...