The Royal Game of Ur is the oldest known board game with surviving boards and preserved rules. Originating in ancient Mesopotamia, it spread widely across the Near East and Mediterranean.

Humans have used head supports for sleep for hundreds of thousands of years. Archaeological evidence traces pillows from grass bedding and ash layers to stone headrests in Mesopotamia and Egypt, and ...

To the Inca people of what’s now South America, the total lunar eclipse indicated that a jaguar had gobbled up the moon. They ...

On a bright morning in Hawaii Kai, you pull into a gas station. The Koolau cliffs glow. Trade­winds stir the palms. You slide ...

Forty-seven people detained in operations carried out on Feb 3 in 22 cities targeting the Socialist Party of the Oppressed ...

A University of Houston psychology professor is challenging the notion that dyslexia, or specific reading disorder, stems ...

Hidden beneath an ancient temple in Assur, Iraq, archaeologists have discovered key evidence of the Cult of Ishtar's origins.

Kashmir's history is a tapestry of myths and geological realities, with the Valley's origins traced back to both Hindu mythology and scientific theories of continental drift. The region's first ...

In the heart of Minneapolis’ Uptown district, Magers & Quinn Booksellers stands as a monument to the written word – a place ...

The exhibition traces how artists in mid-20th-century Baghdad reshaped modern art Next week, The NYU Abu Dhabi Art Gallery ...