Jessica Munson, Ph.D., worked with an interdisciplinary team of researchers to analyze house size distributions with findings were published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Science (PNAS ...

4,500-year-old DNA offers new clues about ancient human societies.

Forty years after the first effort to extract mummy DNA, researchers have finally generated a full genome sequence from an ...

In a first, researchers have sequenced the complete genome of a man from ancient Egypt, and the results reveal that he had ...

A newly spotlighted artifact from ancient Mesopotamia is offering a rare window into how one of the world’s earliest ...

A symposium on Sumerian civilization and literature was recently held at Peking University, bringing together scholars and experts from leading universities and research institutions across China ...

As part of renaming, in 2023, a government of India publication on the occasion of the G-20 summit in New Delhi referred to the Indus Valley Civilization as the Sindhu-Saraswati civilization.

It dated back 3,000 years and contained a map of Mesopotamia that included Babylon, the Euphrates River, and other cities and landmarks. They called it the Imago Mundi. The map on the Imago Mundi is ...

This ancient map reveals Mesopotamia as the center of the known world and includes mythical creatures like Anzu, the lion-headed bird. Updated: Sep 15, 2024 02:36 PM EST ...

The map depicts ancient Mesopotamia (modern-day Iraq), surrounded by a double ring dubbed the “Bitter River,” which marked the borders of the known world at the time.