The find reveals shared musical traditions that connected cultures and supported trade across the Arabian Gulf.

Archaeologists working at a long-buried city in northern Iraq have unearthed clues that could rewrite part of Mesopotamia’s hidden story. The site, Kurd Qaburstan, sits in the Erbil region and may ...

Researchers previously assumed that some of the graves at the site were royal burials. A new study presents a different theory, which challenges existing ideas about early class structures ...

The cymbals were excavated from a building dating to the third millennium BCE, associated with the Umm an-Nar culture. Though musical instruments are rarely preserved in archaeological contexts due to ...

In ancient Mesopotamia during the Bronze Age, as the name of the period suggests, bronze tools were the main tools used, and copper, the material used in making them, was an important commodity.

In India, this fruit is offered to both Durga and Ganesha. In the Ganesha Bhujangam Stotra, a line in the verse describes ...

Archaeologists in Dahwa, Oman, found two strange discs that turned out to be a rare 4,000-year-old musical instrument, ...

Phaistos where an imposing palace once stood is, perhaps not as well known as Knossos, but a focal point of the history of ...

Kings and Generals' historical animated documentary series on the history of Ancient civilizations and Mesopotamian civilizations continue with a video on the rise of Bronze Age trade practices.

Many of our practices and behaviours go back four thousand years. For example, the Danish archaeologists found evidence that ...

Reading "The Story of Perfume," whether in chunks or page by page, provides a fascinating take on how we’ve arrived at the ...