After 10 years of research, Dr Paul Warner claims to have pinpointed a subterranean chamber beneath the Great Pyramid of Giza, where the body of Jesus Christ was laid to rest ...

British anthropologist Dr Paul Warner claims to have found the body of Jesus Christ and the Ark of the Covenant in a hidden ...

They fought the Egyptians, sacked Babylon, and built elaborate cities. Then the Hittites vanished. Today, new discoveries are ...

The British Museum, renowned for its vast and diverse collection of over eight million artifacts, continues to draw global ...

If the best-known glories of ancient Egypt are the pyramids, the mummies and the gold of Tutankhamun, then ancient ...

Ur, sent a clay tablet containing a complaint ... and some of the oldest surviving cuneiform writing was used in ancient Mesopotamia to keep records of the buying and selling of goods.

Almost 4,000 years ago, a Mesopotamian man named Nanni was so disappointed with the copper he bought from a trader named ...

Sumerian civilization appears to have evolved in Southern Mesopotamia around 4000 BC, while some historians place it as far ...

a surprising artifact was found– an ancient "payslip" dating back 5,000 years. This Sumerian cuneiform tablet showed that workers were sometimes paid in beer. It wasn’t just a drink ...

Representations, such as the one with the Egyptian queen Nefertari playing Senet, show just how popular it was in ancient Egypt. Others, like the Royal Game of Ur from Mesopotamia, revealed their ...

Her new book Between Two Rivers: Ancient Mesopotamia and the Birth of History takes readers on a journey in time through what has been able to be read from bricks and tablets found at ... first form ...