The early writing appears to date to around 2400 B.C.—preceding the previous most bygone examples by roughly 500 years.

It wasn’t always such a given. High and late medieval dice were often designed with opposite sides having consecutive values ...

Frederick Hardtke, who described its unique placement: “The goat-fish was found in a locality of el-Hosh, which hosts a large ...

THE Bible grew organically into canon, fostered by the worship, reading, and devotional practices across Mesopotamia, the Mediterranean, and Africa. Canon formation was a social act by which ...