A multidisciplinary team of researchers studied a large body of texts to find out how people in the ancient Mesopotamian region (within modern day Iraq) experienced emotions in their bodies thousands ...

Ancient Mesopotamian bowls found in northern Iraq offer new insights into the collapse of one of the world’s first ...

The theologian and author will be the fifth general editor, first New Testament Scholar, and first woman to lead the 68-year-old series of commentaries and reference works.

An analysis of ancient cuneiform texts suggests people thought of emotions in a different way almost 3000 years ago, showing ...

At the archaeological site of Shakhi Kora, located in the Iraqi Kurdistan region, excavations have provided new insights into ...

Newly analyzed 5,000-year-old clay bowls unearthed in Iraq may be evidence of early government-like rule, a new study finds.

Sade Green visits the burial site of her enslaved African ancestors and explores what it means to be a witness to their lives ...

The site was abandoned by the late fourth millennium B.C. without evidence of violence or environmental catastrophe, ...

Polenta is often associated with rustic simplicity, but what many may not know is that it has a history spanning millennia ...

After collecting 241 spoons at 116 locations across Scandinavia, Germany, and Poland, researchers from Maria Curie Sklodowska ...

Helen Castor is author of The Eagle and the Hart: The Tragedy of Richard II and Henry IV (Allen Lane) ...

Four LMU researchers have each been awarded a Consolidator Grant. Their projects deal with the statistics of social inequality, the cuneiform culture of Mesopotamia, the detailed investigation of ...