A new look at fossils from the Cambrian Period around 500 million years ago has revealed that some of the earliest animals spent time on mudflats that were sometimes exposed to the air – a find that c ...

Rashid's must-read, millennia-spanning history, cleverly wrought from tablets written in the world's oldest script ...

Mesopotamia, with its dense network of ancient cities in the fertile plains ... says Earley-Spadoni in her fieldwork summary report. Animal bones found with the pottery suggest that residents ...

Animal bones found nearby indicate a varied ... ideas of a sharp divide between the haves and the have-nots in ancient Mesopotamia, suggesting a much larger middle class than previously thought ...