This discovery, researchers noted, contributes to “ethnomathematics,” a field that explores mathematics through culture.

Before inventing the wheel, humans dragged heavy loads on an X-shaped structure of wooden poles called a travois.Archeologists working at White Sands National Park in New Mexico may have uncovered ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Ancient DNA has revealed a genetic link between the cultures of ancient Egypt and Mesopotamia, according to research published Wednesday in the journal Nature. Researchers sequenced ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Ancient DNA has revealed a genetic link between the cultures of ancient Egypt and Mesopotamia, according to research published Wednesday in the journal Nature. Researchers sequenced ...

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Researchers have identified an extensive Mesopotamian canal network that supplied ancient farms in the Eridu region with water from the Euphrates river before the first millennium B.C. When you ...

ABSTRACT: Tepe Sagzabad (2200 BC to 500 BC), located in the northwestern region of Iran’s central plateau, lies along a key east-west trade route on the Iranian Plateau. This site faces numerous ...

Happiness "lights up" similar areas on both modern and ancient body maps, with the exception of the liver, which was more significant for the ancient Mesopotamians. Modern: PNAS / Lauri Nummenmaa et ...