The Bronze Age began around 3300 BCE with the discovery that copper mixed with tin produced a stronger alloy. This breakthrough transformed tools, weapons, and construction. Civilizations in ...

If you’re heading to Times Square for New Year’s Eve in New York City, bundle up and prepare for a classic winter chill. Here ...

The discovery of a 5th millennium BC grave on the western shore of the Black Sea has pushed the story of gold back to a far ...

At its peak, the Old Babylonian Empire rose to be one of the biggest civilizations the world had seen–but what was daily life like? Along with the pioneering legal code of Hammurabi, a wealth of ...

Assyrian cuneiform tablet from Kanesh(Courtesy of the Yale Babylonian Collection/Photography by Alberto Urcia/Text NBC 1907) Harvard University Assyriologist Gojko Barjamovic is currently ...

Snow. Snow accumulation of 2 to 4 inches. Lows around 12. West winds 10 to 15 mph with gusts up to 35 mph. Chance of snow near 100 percent. Wind chill values as low as zero after midnight. Mostly ...

Medical usage? Ritual practice? Or perhaps the drugs served both purposes? Researchers are asking what the recently recovered psychoactive drug residues from ancient Mesopotamia mean. But not everyone ...