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 ...

Discover the history of Iraq's name. Learn why the region was called the 'Cradle of Civilization,' and the changes that led ...

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 ...

Debris from a fire that destroyed a two story home along Route 7 Monday was removed by Amish crews Tuesday, clearing the site ...

Many of us learned our alphabet in elementary school, if not before. That same alphabet can apply to mediations. As a ...

ERBIL, Kurdistan Region - President Masoud Barzani said Thursday that recent fighting in northeast Syria (Rojava) risked ...

Ziggurats were mudbrick temples designed to bridge heaven and earth, anchoring religion, power, and architecture in the ancient Near East for thousands of years.