"In the Land of Ninkasi" tells the story of the world's first beer culture.

The ancient Epic of Gilgamesh was scratched into clay tablets long before paper was invented. Now it’s getting the operatic ...

Although the ancients Mesopotamians were aware of the concept of chimeras and regularly used them in everyday art, their understanding of the genetic mechanisms involved in chimerism and mosaicism ...

AMMAN - The Late Bronze Age collapse brought a dramatic societal change in the Southern Europe, North and South Levant. It ...

In pairs, the students create an ABC book. One student does A-M the other student does N-Z. They brainstorm and write a short paragraph on each letter (Ex: Cuneiform: cuneiform was an early form or ...

But they weren't only interested in astronomy. The extraction of iron, which led to the Iron Age, is a chemical process which early metallurgists developed without understanding any of the science ...

Some of the earliest recorded civilizations, including the Greeks, Mesopotamians and Babylonians, speak of the heart as harboring intelligence. Modern science has tended to consider this point of ...

The ancient Mesopotamians would have drunk their beer from large jugs with drinking straws, and since hops had yet to be discovered, Sumerian beer was brewed to be enjoyed immediately after it was ...

Jim Meehan asked some of the best bartenders on the planet for their favorite cocktail recipes — and put them in a book.

The one-horned unicorn appears on the ancient Harappan civilisation’s seals and points to possible links between merchants ...

Beer is one of those beverages that feels ultra-modern, but has actually been around for millennia, with ancient Babylonians, ...