A chance discovery made in 1913 by German archaeologist Ludwig Borchardt led to the century-old appreciation of ancient Egyptian art and beauty. The discovery in…
The City of David is often described as the urban core of ancient Jerusalem, which (possibly) already boasted walled fortifications from the Bronze Age. And…
A collaborative effort by a joint Tunisian-Italian archaeological mission has led to the incredible discovery of massive ruins off the coasts of northeast Tunisia. According…
Last year in August, the archaeological world welcomed the scanning of the Venus of Dolní Věstonice, the 29,000-year old ceramic statuette of a woman that…
In one of our earlier articles, we talked about how Mesopotamia is widely considered to have fueled some of the most crucial inventions in human…
Rome’s iconic Olympic Stadium (Stadio Olimpico), the home stadium of Serie A clubs Lazio and Roma, was inaugurated in 1937, and as such boasts an…
According to John Ronald Reuel Tolkien’s own words, as mentioned in his Letter #211, dating from 1958, this is what the eminent author had to…
A few days ago, we talked about how beer made from standardized recipes was widely consumed in Mesopotamia, by circa 5th millennium BC. Well, now…
When it comes to the history of incredible inventions, advanced mathematics was one of the major developments that came out of Mesopotamia. Pertaining to this…
Mesopotamia as a regional toponym relates to a conglomeration of areas from various modern-day nations, including Iraq, Kuwait, Syria, Turkey and even Iraq-Iran borders. Now historically, the relevance…
