Discover an ancient Middle Eastern delight: dates stuffed with butter. This energy-dense treat, dating back to 4000 BCE, ...
Because of shifting storms and sweltering summers, Iran’s capital faces a future “Day Zero” when the taps run dry.
The world’s first known lock-and-key system, dating back to 4000 BCE in Mesopotamia, shows how ancient people protected their ...
Buried beneath the waters of Quintana Roo, Mexico lies a discovery that breaks the historical timeline wide open — a 12,500-year-old ochre mine carved into limestone by organized hands. These weren’t ...
The world's first city was built long before the Harappans, and its ruins still stand in a quiet desert far from the usual ...
A new book suggests 98 percent of the ideas and knowledge humans learned through history have been lost in time ...
Throughout history, housing materials have served not just as shelter but as cultural signatures. A city’s skyline often reveals the story of its ...
F or me, the standout book of 2025 is John Blair’s Killing the Dead: Vampire Epidemics from Mesopotamia to the New World ...
A few weeks ago, a disappointing item appeared in my newsfeed. The Farmer's Almanac, published in New Jersey for 150 years ...
New research suggests that climate change may have played a decisive role in the collapse of the long lost Indus Valley civilisation.