The Sumerians of Mesopotamia are considered the world's oldest civilisation, dating back to around 4000 BCE. The Sumerians ...

In the mid-1960s, a Soviet military topographer was analyzing aerial photos of Ukraine when he came across some unusual ...

Pope Francis pens the preface to the book "The Christian Heritage in Iraq" by German journalist and theologian Matthias Kopp, ...

All the same, this is a rich and appealing book. Humankind’s inventiveness in conceptualising the workings of the world emerges with force. Much magic is underpinned by a belief that the everything is ...

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Hundreds of years ago, our understanding of the sea was even more limited. Sailors came across many strange creatures, which ...

Not long ago, I wrote a book about the political science of Moses as written into law in the form of the Ten Commandments. Moses and his people suffered under ...

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Known as the Hat Man, this tall, dark, featureless entity has been seen in people's bedrooms across the globe, watching over ...

The goal of Ancient Origins is to highlight recent archaeological discoveries, peer-reviewed academic research and evidence, as well as offering alternative viewpoints and explanations of science, ...

Archeologists and linguists, assemble! An eye-wateringly huge prize awaits whoever can decipher a 5,300-year-old Indus language.