A newfound clay head from the sixth millennium B.C. is the first of its kind ever found in Kuwait, but similar finds have ...

Mysterious alien-like statues unearthed from ancient Stone Age settlement - Ubaid culture figurines bear striking ...

Ancient Mesopotamia felt love in their livers and anger in their feet, revealed a recent analysis of one million words of the ...

Husking trays not only baked bread but also fostered human connection across an area spanning 2,000 km (~1,243 miles) ...

After analyzing millions of words in ancient Akkadian, researchers believe ancient humans may have felt emotions in the ...

Researchers have uncovered how ancient Mesopotamians linked emotions like happiness and anger to specific body parts.

A multidisciplinary team of researchers studied a large body of texts to find out how people in the ancient Mesopotamian ...

Love and emotions have been universal themes throughout human history, expressed in diverse ways but with commonalities ...

African slaves ended up as sailors in Persia, pearl divers in the Gulf, soldiers in the Omani army and workers on the salt pans of Mesopotamia (modern Iraq). Many people were domestic slaves ...

This course surveys some important issues and tendencies in the history of Western Civilization from its origins through the early modern period, including ancient Mesopotamia, classical Greece and ...