New research shows that the rise of Sumer was deeply tied to the tidal and sedimentary dynamics of ancient Mesopotamia. Early ...

A study reveals that Sumer, the cradle of civilization, rose because of natural tidal irrigation that shaped the world’s ...

Jujutsu Kaisen Modulo Chapter 9 continues from the end of the last instalment, and readers get more insight into the origins ...

More than 3,000 years before the first hospital opened its doors, healers in the ancient world were already experimenting ...

The CEO of the Dutch brewer Heineken has drawn a wobbly line between how lonely we are and how much less we drink beer.

Alcohol has been around for thousands of years. However, the style of fermentation has changed throughout the ages. These are the oldest alcohols in human history.

The oldest known beer style dates back to ancient Sumeria, around 5,000 BCE. The Sumerians brewed a beer-like beverage called “kash”, made by fermenting loaves of barley bread in water. The result was ...

This Sunday, we will all dutifully set our clocks back one hour for daylight saving time. But why is our day divided into 24 hours, each hour divided into 60 ...

A recent study is changing the understanding of how urbanization developed in ancient Mesopotamia. According to the analysis, the emergence of the Sumerian civilization was not only the result of ...

A recently published study in PLOS ONE is reshaping scientific understanding of the rise of urban civilization in ancient ...

Ancient languages are captivating despite the fact that studying them or learning about them is a long, complex process. Of course, many students just get briefly acquainted with this subject and ...

In the belief system of the Sumerians, Enki (known also as Ea by the Akkadians and Babylonians) was regarded to be one of the most important deities. Originally Enki was worshipped as a god of fresh ...