In the cradle of civilisation, illness wasn’t just a medical problem — it was a supernatural one. That’s why Mesopotamians ...

With increasing trends like tarot card reading and astrology apps, psychic services are, once again, becoming a popular tool ...

Archaeologists working at a long-buried city in northern Iraq have unearthed clues that could rewrite part of Mesopotamia’s hidden story. The site, Kurd Qaburstan, sits in the Erbil region and may ...

Visit ancient Mars—a surprisingly temperate ... Mars almost got frozen in time and probably still looks a lot like Earth did 3.5 billion years ago," he said. More information: Amanda V.

Think Karens and Yelp complaints are a relatively new thing? This ancient discovery proves humans have always loved to ...

The late political scientist enjoined readers to look for opposition to authoritarian states not in revolutionary vanguards ...

Many of our practices and behaviours go back four thousand years. For example, the Danish archaeologists found evidence that ...

Phaistos where an imposing palace once stood is, perhaps not as well known as Knossos, but a focal point of the history of ...

She did move past that feeling ... Ishtar—a fertility and warrior goddess from ancient Sumer, who “has it all.” Elsewhere, we tour to look at a small statuette of a hermaphrodite from ...

Both the ancient Sumerians and ancient Chinese believed deities had ... “you know what you’re looking at right away. You’re like, ‘Aha! I get why you did that!’” Will Grunewald is Down East's editor ...

Visit ancient Mars—a surprisingly temperate ... Mars almost got frozen in time and probably still looks a lot like Earth did 3.5 billion years ago,” he said.