A recet video by the British Museum described how its cuneiform instructions could be followed to find the resting place of ...

As part of their survey, researchers examined declassified U.S. spy satellite imagery from the 1970s, which is now in the public domain, and compared the visual data to modern-day photography and ...

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A series of strong Amorite kings—including King Hammurabi, famous for compiling the world’s first legal code—enabled Babylon to eclipse the Sumerian capital, Ur, as the region’s most ...

This tree-map is sounding a rare note of optimism in the conservation world. But the Woodland Trust charity warns that these trees - known as ancient or veteran specimens - have "almost no" legal ...

This is the first piece in the AGON – Ancient Games of Nations series, a collection of amazing traditional board games for iPad. About the history of The Royal Game of Ur: In the 1920s ...

Image caption, A restored Ziggurat in the ancient city of Ur. Mud-brick houses were built around a central courtyard where children could play. People sometimes slept on the flat roofs of their ...

It was all thanks to the discovery of a long-forgotten map. The document, found in a Newcastle library, revealed a rich pasture landscape littered with ancient field names, hedgerows and woodland ...

The goal is to have a map with a resolution of about 1 meter (3 feet) per pixel, showing individual rocks, possible ancient rivers, and more. “All this old mission data is part of a mosaic that ...

This 1620 version of The Yellow Emperor’s Classic of Internal Medicine, first compiled some 2,100 years ago, includes a map of qi lines ... have a ward devoted to ancient cures.

Who ever goes beyond page one of Google search results? Well, Luke Auld-Thomas did, and it led to the discovery of a lost ...

A fresco featuring the bright blue paint of the newly opened room; a scanning electron image of an ancient Roman concrete sample with lime clast, highlighted in red; Dr. Masic inspecting the ...