The hunt for the Garden of Eden has usually belonged to theologians and dreamers, not software coders. Yet a computer ...

A 17th-century map of Mesopotamia, which housed the Assyrian empire -- and the beginnings of modern capitalism. Breuning Von Buchenbach Hans Jacob - 1612/Picryl. We think of ancient civilisations as ...

For over 3,000 years, civilizations that never met and never shared a language somehow imagined the same terrifying place: a realm of judgment, suffering, and cosmic consequence. From Mesopotamia’s ...

Peter Thiel, Marc Andreessen, and a bit of the backstory of the shameful pardon of the former Honduran president.

From Shinro Ohtake’s exposed film sheets to an archive of Palestinian textile works, here are the shows frieze editors couldn ...

We think of ancient civilisations as operating very differently from the way our economy works today. Yet the Bronze Age Assyrians living in Mesopotamia, around 4,000 to 3,000 years ago, began the ...

So, he sank a trial trench into what the locals called Mohenjo Daro, “the Mound of the Dead Men”. Within days he pulled out square steatite seals bearing a horned figure seated in yoga posture and an ...

I have particularly agonised about the vacuum in the Nigerian foreign policy space, our distressing non-committal disposition ...

It’s that most wonderful time of the year—the temperatures are dropping, the days are getting shorter, and the latest board game releases from SPIEL Essen have started to make their way across ...

For the first time, scientists have mapped vast, continent-scale river drainage systems on Mars — ancient networks that may ...

Published in Zürich in 1525, Lucas Cranach the Elder’s map came at a moment when the modern idea of nation-states was only ...

Restricting Tehran’s growth and water use — however politically difficult — would be more prudent than trying to engineer ...