The idea is as old as time, at least since Lagash, a Mesopotamian city that imposed them around 2,500 BCE. The port city of Antwerp in Belgium is known for being very severe with import duties in ...

What does it take to decipher an extinct writing system? If Joshua Hammer’s new book The Mesopotamian Riddle: An archaeologist, a soldier, a clergyman, and the race to decipher the world’s ...

From Isro Layout to Indiranagar, city overflows with uncollected garbage While citizens point to a shortage of pourakarmikas (civic workers), they also allege that even the few on duty are not ...

There are various unfinished versions of Half-Life 2 that have come to light over the years, all of which reveal interesting things about how Valve's plans changed over time as it painstakingly ...

Writing and trade are deeply intertwined, and some of the oldest surviving cuneiform writing was used in ancient Mesopotamia to keep records of the buying and selling of goods. In ancient ...

Following an extensive refurbishment including a change of layout, the city centre restaurant and takeaway reopened on Friday, April 4. The restaurant is owned and operated by local franchisee ...

Residents of AECS Layout in east Bengaluru have launched a campaign against two buildings with unauthorized additional floors. Despite demolition notices from BBMP, the builders produced a high ...

Emerging from communities on the banks of the Tigris, in present-day Iraq, the Assyrians had conquered Babylon and Egypt and ruled in the Mesopotamian ... great Assyrian city of Calah standing ...

While interhuman relationships may go back to the early years of humanity, there is one ritual known the world over that has a much more recent history: marriage. Evidence suggests that marriage ...

This theory was based on the idea that by the early Bronze Age, Mesopotamian societies were ruled by kings and organized into social hierarchies. But the new study complicates that idea.

Tomb after tomb of lavishly appointed burials containing prestige objects were uncovered in the ancient Mesopotamian city of Ur. It was an extraordinary dig, with hundreds of workmen uncovering ...