A 7,500-year-old stone seal found in eastern Turkey reveals clues about prehistoric administration, trade, and identity.

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

Buried in the desert for roughly 4,500 years, the skeleton of a single Egyptian man has yielded a complete genome that redraws the map of the ancient world. His DNA captures a moment when people from ...

Newly published findings from salvage dig near Afula detail discovery of burial pits where high official's remains may have been interred along with dozens of opulent and rare artifacts ...

A seal walked into a bar. Or to use a technical term, it galumphed. The creature was apparently lost, curious and well below New Zealand 's legal drinking age. It lodged itself under the dishwasher ...

After the virus returned to Hawaii this fall, testing the shots in the endangered seal species became urgent. After the virus returned to Hawaii this fall, testing the shots in the endangered seal ...

It took decades for archaeologists to realize this 3,500-year-old tablet depicts an ancient city at scale. But how did its creators pull that off? Archaeologists from the University of Pennsylvania ...

The earliest form of the signature came from ancient Iraq in the form of cylinder seals. Mesopotamians, the ancient inhabitants of the land between the Euphrates and Tigris rivers, are credited with ...

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Mesopotamians, the ancient inhabitants of the land between the Euphrates and Tigris ...