The finds, which also include dozens of clay sealings, contain details of a metric system used to measure resources, as well ...

Archaeologists say they've found "the very first material evidence of the very first empire in the world" in 4,000-year-old ...

From the carefully constructed streets of Indus Valley to Egypt's lofty pyramids, from the heavens' wisdom of the Maya to the ...

This is not new. When literacy was first discovered, a small group of scribes held their leaders to ransom by communicating the wishes of kings. The Sumerians and Akkadians of Mesopotamia engaged in ...

The earliest Arabs, Semitic peoples related to the Akkadians of Mesopotamia, the Canaanites and Hebrews of the Levant, and the Abyssinians of the Horn of Africa, settled in the Arabian Peninsula ...