A newfound clay head from the sixth millennium B.C. is the first of its kind ever found in Kuwait, but similar finds have been unearthed from ancient Mesopotamia. Archaeologists in Kuwait have ...

Excavations at the site have given insights into the Ubaid culture, which spread in its heyday from Mesopotamia to Anatolia and the Arabian peninsula. A recent dig has uncovered several small but ...

High on Jingmai Mountain, Indigenous tea growers are holding fast to ancient techniques and creating a premium tea that has never been more popular. Dai tea growers pluck leaves in Da Ping Zhang ...

For nearly 300 years, a family’s ancestral house in India's southern state of Kerala has been the stage for theyyam, an ancient folk ritual. Rooted in ancient tribal traditions, theyyam predates ...

Royal board game of Ur. Credit: Mary Harrsch / CC BY-NC-SA 2.0 In 1977, archaeologists excavating an ancient cemetery in southeastern Iran uncovered an astonishing find: a 4,500-year-old Mesopotamian ...