The British Museum, renowned for its vast and diverse collection of over eight million artifacts, continues to draw global ...

Shocking DNA findings from two mummies discovered in Northern Africa may rewrite the family tree of human history. Scientists from the Max Planck Institute in Germany found that these ancient ...

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Photograph by AKG/Album Early Muslim medicine drew on traditional practices from the region, some dating back to ancient Mesopotamia and ancient Babylon in the third millennium B.C. Traditional ...

Apr. 8, 2025 — The idea that dinosaurs were already in decline before an asteroid wiped most of them out 66 million years ago may be explained by a worsening fossil record from that time rather ...

We will learn how archaeologists and codebreakers deciphered these inscriptions as well as the basics of the writing systems themselves, from Mesopotamian cuneiform to Egyptian hieroglyphics to ...