The Dispilio Tablet, a wooden artifact engraved with linear symbols and dated to around 5260 BC, was discovered in a ...

Compare barter and currency systems. Discover why currency dominates modern trade and explore the evolution of digital ...

A new exploration into an ancient tablet with its roots in ancient Mesopotamia has revealed that everything we thought we ...

These ruins of the city of Babylon in Iraq date to the Neo-Babylonian Empire (626–539 B.C.). A 22-inch-high basalt stela depicting Babylon’s king Nabonidus (r. 556–539 B.C.) shows him wearing a ...

Study of ancient cuneiform cylinders reveals how Nebuchadnezzar II restored Kish’s ziggurat and linked his rule to Babylon’s ...

One small artifact opened up a world of discovery of a Neolithic civilization with a remarkably advanced social structure.

The team excavating in the west Nile Delta have discovered a necropolis and industrial complex dating from the Roman Period.

Ca. 2300–2000 b.c. The head likely depicts a Mesopotamian ruler and is one of the earliest known life-size lost-wax metal sculptures to survive. It had been thought that the head was virtually solid, ...

Tim Smith has 20+ years of experience in the financial services industry, both as a writer and as a trader. Somer G. Anderson is CPA, doctor of accounting, and an accounting and finance professor who ...

Carved into rock near the village of El-Khawy in southern Egypt, a massive line of ancient hieroglyphs has just been brought ...