Traces of opium found inside an ancient alabaster vase suggest drug use was common in ancient Egypt, not rare or accidental.

Over 8,000 years ago, early farming communities in northern Mesopotamia were already thinking mathematically—long before ...

A 4,500-year-old burial in Middle Egypt has reshaped what scientists know about ancient Egyptian origins. Inside a sealed ...

Hebrew University researchers uncovered 8,000-year-old pottery showing floral patterns built on precise geometric ...

A new study published in the Journal of World Prehistory reveals that some of humanity's earliest artistic representations of ...

A new study reveals that the Halafian culture of northern Mesopotamia (c. 6200–5500 BCE) produced the earliest systematic ...

Assyrian cuneiform tablet from Kanesh(Courtesy of the Yale Babylonian Collection/Photography by Alberto Urcia/Text NBC 1907) Harvard University Assyriologist Gojko Barjamovic is currently ...

Around 2112 B.C., the Sumerian king Ur-Namma (r. 2112–2095 B.C.) united the city-states of southern Mesopotamia into a short-lived kingdom known today as the Third Dynasty of Ur, or Ur III. More than ...

Set up in 1907, the College of Agriculture in Pune was one of India’s first five agricultural colleges. Between 1916 and 1919 ...

Chogha Zanbil was first spotted from a surveillance airplane in 1935. The excavated complex was discovered to be one of the few ziggurats built outside Mesopotamia. The ruins of the ancient Elamite ...

Watch an engaging conversation between ACS Central Science Editor-in-Chief Prof. Carolyn Bertozzi and C&EN Editor-in-Chief Nick Ishmael-Perkins, which took place at ACS Spring 2024, in New Orleans.