The oldest surviving world map, known as the Imago Mundi, offers a fascinating glimpse into ancient Babylonian life. Dating ...

Altogether there were over 1500 city-states in the Greek world, but some of these would barely qualify as towns in modern terms. Even Athens, by far the largest of all city-states, only contained ...

This 8th-century miniature, by the Spanish monk Beatus of Liébana, depicts the Bible story of Babylonian King Nebuchadrezzar eating grass as divine punishment. Photograph by Granger Collection ...

Excavation of the Mesopotamian city of Ur The second set of maps documented the location of the Tigris and Euphrates in the valley of Mesopotamia over time. Unlike rivers flowing through a canyon ...

So, by 3000 BC, the people who had to manage the various city-states of Mesopotamia were discovering how to use written records for all kinds of day-to-day administration, keeping large temples ...

Contrary to long-held beliefs that the first cities emerged in Mesopotamia or Central Asia ... remnants of what may have been “the largest city in the world,” discernible today only through ...

California is one of the fastest shrinking states in the U.S., but this trend has not been equal across the state.

Modern atmospheric principles are hidden in van Gogh's 'The Starry Night' ...

Assyrians, a Christian indigenous group with roots tracing back to ancient Mesopotamia in the modern Middle East, are a minority community in the United States but hold significant populations in ...

The pace of population change in most New York counties slowed during 2023.

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