The oldest reference in the first known writing — cuneiform — was not about gods or kings, but about beer. Lots of it. It was ...

At a rock art site located on the western bank of the Nile River, an ancient Egyptian petroglyph depicting a […] ...

Lady Gaga appeared as the host and musical guest on the March 8 episode of Saturday Night Live’s 50th season. She has since gone viral after a video of her performing an alleged satanic ritual ...

Immortal Pillars is a great addition to Age of Mythology: Retold, finally giving the Chinese pantheon its due. New units and God Powers radically shake things up on the battlefield, and while the ...

Santa Monica Studio has confirmed that the God of War franchise's upcoming 20th anniversary event won't feature any "planned" announcements related to the series. Fans were looking forward to the ...

This discovery provides an exceptionally clear window into the agricultural practices of early Mesopotamian farmers. Between the sixth century BC and the early first millennium BC, the farmers ...

Researchers have identified an extensive Mesopotamian canal network that supplied ancient farms in the Eridu region with water from the Euphrates river before the first millennium B.C.

Illustration of Mesopotamian urban center ... as reflected in Hammurapi’s stele depicting him presenting his laws to the god of justice, Shamash (or in some interpretations, receiving them ...

A remarkable aspect of the discovery is that, unlike other Mesopotamian regions where river courses changed drastically over the centuries, in the Eridu region, the Euphrates remained relatively ...

Ziggurat of Ur. Credit: flickr / Joshua McFall CC BY-NC-ND 2.0 Archaeologists have uncovered an extensive irrigation system, including canals and farms, near Sumerian Eridu, an ancient Mesopotamian ...