Learn how environmental changes have humbled many of history’s most successful and dominant cultures.

Since humans discovered the power and capability that comes with numbers, we have lived in societies that enable us to … ...

On a late-summer day in 1856, a letter carrier stepped from a mail coach in front of a three-story townhouse in Mayfair, in ...

of societies from the Akkadian empire of the 24 th century BC down to the modern age, of 336 years. It is very difficult to find an exact date for the “rise” of anything so complex as a ...

the capital of the Hittite Empire, located in present-day Turkey. These texts reveal not only the spread of the Mesopotamian myth but also the adaptations it underwent when adopted by a culture ...

From climate change to geopolitics and artificial intelligence, there are many factors they must take into account while ...

Babel, whose original derivation from the Hebrew name for Babylon dates even further back to Akkadian—an extinct ... establishment and maintenance of Empire. Match-pairs, as R.D. Kuang terms ...

the earliest known civilization — which produced the world’s earliest known texts — and the Akkadian Empire, the first known empire of Mesopotamia. The cities of Ur, said to be the ...

If not for the work of two scholars, Alice Kober and Michael Ventris, the ancient Greek script Linear B would likely still be a mystery.