The Greeks named this ancient culture Mesopotamia after the Euphrates and ... In transport, the wheel was used on battle chariots and carts. In agriculture, it greatly contributed to its ...

Cylinders of this type were used in ancient Mesopotamia to record special events or proclamations ... to ride on horseback and in a chariot, to hold the reins. By order of the great gods, whose names ...

On a late-summer day in 1856, a letter carrier stepped from a mail coach in front of a three-story townhouse in Mayfair, in ...

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Alexander the Great riding in triumphal chariot driven by the winged Goddess of Victory Tower of Babel. Ancient city Babylon of Mesopotamia and Iraq. Biblical story. Sumerian civilization. History and ...

Rashid's must-read, millennia-spanning history, cleverly wrought from tablets written in the world's oldest script ...

Ed Sheeran fans turned the Bengaluru Metro into their own impromptu concert after returning from the singer's show. A viral video of the moment is winning big reactions from netizens, while also ...

At first whiff, it sounds repulsive: sniff the essence of an ancient corpse. But researchers who indulged their curiosity in the name of science found that well-preserved Egyptian mummies actually ...

A local government in India is offering a $1 million prize to the first person who cracks the code of an ancient script found in the ruins of one of the world’s earliest civilizations.