Cuneiform tablets from ancient Mesopotamia cover a range of topics, from exorcising ghosts to uncovering the location of Noah’s Ark. Cuneiform tablet, c. 2nd–1st century B.C.E., Mesopotamia ...

The Framji Dadabhoy Alpaiwalla Museum documents the history and legacy of the ancient Parsi community - a small ethnic group ...

Explore the origins of the first written texts, from ancient hymns to the Epic of Gilgamesh—humanity's earliest literary ...

They authored massive archives of cuneiform tablets containing numerous ancient languages and sacred rituals. Their kings benefited from trade routes that reached far beyond the Hittite homeland ...

Paper’s invention was a revolutionary breakthrough. Following the invention of paper in 105 CE, forms of communication, learning, and record-keeping were drastically simplified. We track its rich ...

Nowadays, most people associate artificial intelligence with language models like ChatGPT. However, machine learning can do more than generate text. In the fields of archaeology and philology, A.I ...

AD Roman life-size marble statue of important magistrate. Academic report by Dr. Raffaele D'Amato; geological report by ...

The business of death allowed drug lords to create entire criminal empires. Each cartel has on its territory purchased officials of various ranks, a bribed police force, a PR service and squads of ...

Humans started counting tens of thousands of years ago, but when did they begin figuring out advanced arithmetic, algebra and even calculus?