Over 40,000 years ago, our early ancestors were already carving signs into tools and sculptures. According to a new analysis ...

Around 40,000 years ago, Paleolithic people inscribed bone with symbols that appear to be part of some sort of writing system ...

The history of writing down thoughts and feelings could be tens of thousands of years older than previously believed, ...

This story celebrates the humble umbrella. Its history is uneventful but very long. Ancient Egypt, ancient Mesopotamia, ...

ZED has presented a lineup of history documentaries featuring AI-powered reconstructions developed within its own studio.

The birth of writing could be 40,000 years earlier than previously thought after scientists found etchings in a German cave.

Graham Arnold says a delay to the March 31 fixture would allow the scattered members of his team to gather and prepare.

In this episode, we follow the Ottoman Empire from the frozen nightmare of Sarikamish to the widening chaos in Persia, Mesopotamia, and the Sinai. Along the way, we trace how collapsing border ...

There are actually 13 zodiac signs. If you look at the constellations along the ecliptic, you’ll find not 12 but 13 of them over the course of a year. Ophiuchus, the Serpent Bearer, was forgotten. Or ...

The Chinese Communist Party has embraced the study of Greek and Latin—as, in some ways, an antidote to the modern West.

In just four decades, Hammurabi transformed Babylon from an overlooked city-state into the dominant power of Mesopotamia. This chapter explores the wars, diplomacy, and revolutionary law code that ...

A ground-breaking new study suggests an early form of writing emerged thousands of years before experts previously thought. The sequences of mysterious signs and symbols carved onto artefacts found in ...