It’s not every day you get to see a map that wasn’t fully known,” said Altoona Area Public Library’s archivist Joshua ...

It’s not every day you get to see a map that wasn’t fully known,” said Altoona Area Public Library’s archivist Joshua ...

The Institute for the Study of Ancient Cultures launched a new initiative integrating traditional scholarship with digital ...

Gender-ambiguous people in ancient Mesopotamia were powerful and important members of society more than four millennia ago.

SCRIBE STATUE. FOUND: Lagash, Iraq. CULTURE: Sumerian. DATE: ca. 2400 B.C. LANGUAGE: Sumerian. In early 2016, hundreds of media outlets around the world reported that a set of recently deciphered ...

The archaeological site at Turkey’s Boğazköy-Hattusha, the former capital of the Bronze Age Hittite empire, is a hotbed of ancient languages. During excavations of the ruins, archaeologists uncovered ...

Around 2112 B.C., the Sumerian king Ur-Namma (r. 2112–2095 B.C.) united the city-states of southern Mesopotamia into a short-lived kingdom known today as the Third Dynasty of Ur, or Ur III. More than ...

James Chen, CMT is an expert trader, investment adviser, and global market strategist. David Kindness is a Certified Public Accountant (CPA) and an expert in the fields of financial accounting, ...

Investopedia contributors come from a range of backgrounds, and over 25 years there have been thousands of expert writers and editors who have contributed. Somer G. Anderson is CPA, doctor of ...

Handwriting – one of mankind’s greatest inventions – has quite literally written the future by allowing us to pass on ideas from one generation to the next. Today it's hard to imagine how society ...