For centuries, the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World have stirred fascination. These legendary structures, once towering ...

From ancient law codes to 20th-century psychoanalysis, the story of fatherhood is far stranger and more surprising than you ...

In the early 20th century, architects and artists like Hugh Ferriss drew on the myths and monuments of ancient Babylon to ...

Imagine a time when the world was flat, surrounded by vast, unknowable waters, and ruled by the whims of powerful deities. For the ancient Babylonians, this wasn't mere fantasy, but their ...

Before satellites and global positioning systems, ancient civilizations charted their known universe with remarkable ingenuity. Among these early cartographic marvels, the Babylonian Map of the World ...

Ancient Greece, the cradle of Western civilization, was responsible for creating five of the Seven Wonders of the ancient world. Along with the Great Pyramid at Giza and the Hanging Gardens of Babylon ...

The Centre of Excellence in Ancient Near Eastern Empires has published an annotated text corpus of some 6,000 Babylonian texts from the sixth and fifth centuries BCE. The texts have been ...

The networks are based on almost 6,100 legal and administrative texts from Babylonia. The texts have been primarily written in the sixth and fifth centuries BCE, but a number of Hellenistic texts are ...

Furthermore, other cultures have their own symbols of healing. In ancient India, Ayurveda traditions emphasised the balance between bodily elements (doshas), often represented through symbolic ...

Chanting om in meditation is believed to lead to self-realisation. The visual symbol represents the essence of ultimate reality and consciousness – Atman or Brahman. It remains indispensable to yoga ...

The ancient Greeks were incredibly talented mathematicians ... like the Arabic numerals we still use, it only needed one symbol for each decimal place. In the 6th century BCE, the Greek alphabet ...