The Bronze Age began around 3300 BCE with the discovery that copper mixed with tin produced a stronger alloy. This breakthrough transformed tools, weapons, and construction. Civilizations in ...

Mesopotamia, the world's oldest civilisation, arose in ancient Iraq, pioneering writing, law, and science. Explore its ...

Ancient pottery reveals early farmers were using math thousands of years before numbers, embedding geometry and patterns into ...

More than 8,000 years ago, ancient farming communities in Mesopotamia were already thinking mathematically, using art to ...

Over 8,000 years ago, early farming communities in northern Mesopotamia were already thinking mathematically—long before ...

Researchers investigate hundreds of motifs made by Halafians and determine that they exhibited mathematical themes.

Across the globe, a race is under way to crack some of the last mysterious forms of writing that have never been translated.

The Sumerians were the first known people to settle in Mesopotamia over 7,000 years ago. Located in the southernmost part of Mesopotamia between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers (modern day Iraq), ...

Way back in Mesopotamia, writing developed. Then Phoenicians made an alphabet. A couple of years later, Gutenberg invented a printing press, then some enlightenment produced libraries to let people ...

A clay tablet with proto-cuneiform writing. Image credits: Jim Kuhn/Wikimedia Commons. Imagine a world without written records — no books, no laws, no way to document discoveries or communicate ideas ...

A signed Sumerian tablet that is over 5000 years old, from ancient Mesopotamia, has been sold at auction. This extremely historic artifact is believed to have one of the first-ever signatures and ...

To understand Chinese culture, it is necessary to go back to the very beginning of its civilisation. In this series, we look at the most influential dynasties in Chinese history and how each, with its ...