The world’s first known lock-and-key system, dating back to 4000 BCE in Mesopotamia, shows how ancient people protected their ...

Because of shifting storms and sweltering summers, Iran’s capital faces a future “Day Zero” when the taps run dry.

The Indus Valley civilization, located in present-day Pakistan and India, went through four periods of intense drought, which ...

Long before ancient Egypt or Mesopotamia, early humans were fermenting fruits and grains to create the world’s first ...

Woohoo in Dubai is betting on artificial intelligence technology to change the city’s culinary scene, with plans to license ...

A new book suggests 98 percent of the ideas and knowledge humans learned through history have been lost in time ...

A new book argues that civilizations built on centralized wealth and power contain the seeds of their own destruction.

According to National Geographic, the map depicts distances between gates in the wall surrounding the Mesopotamian city of Nippur, but for decades experts questioned its accuracy. The locations of ...

Ancient Sudan was connected, through trade and military activity, with Egypt, the Mediterranean world and Mesopotamia, and ...

Hotter temperatures and a series of droughts in what is now Pakistan and India fragmented one of the world’s major early civilisations, providing a "warning shot" for today ...

The Zayed National Museum, designed by Norman Foster, and the Natural History Museum, are both located on the emirate's ...

The Assyrian business community also had the first businesswomen and female investors. Generous tax breaks were given to ...