Whether you were hoping to drop a few pounds or build that summer six-pack, the ancient world was loaded with helpful pointers about getting in shape. 1. Drunk athletes still have to exercise ...

Excavations on unpromising mounds in the Iraqi desert revealed Sumer’s earliest city. Surviving relics and a rebuilt temple have given experts more clues about the ancient metropolis of Eridu.

Save guides, add subjects and pick up where you left off with your BBC account. Narrator: Hello, future people of the UK. Would you like to visit me at the dawn of civilisation in ancient Sumer?

The museum's website highlights that the ongoing digitization of its Babylonian cuneiform tablets is helping preserve these ancient artifacts. Among these digitized artifacts of the Oxford ...

The Greek goddess Aphrodite, for example, was modelled on a goddess called Ishtar, who herself was a reincarnation of Inanna, the Sumerian goddess of love and war. The stories of the gods of ancient ...