Gender-ambiguous people in ancient Mesopotamia were powerful and important members of society more than four millennia ago.

Repeated flower designs on ancient pottery hint that early village life relied on counting and shared ideas way before math ...

Earlier this month, President Donald Trump issued a pardon for Adriana Camberos, a businesswoman who had been convicted of fraud in 2024. Amid the thousands of pardons the president has granted during ...

Today, trans people face politicization of their lives and vilification from politicians, media and parts of broader society.

Ancient medical texts found in Iraq reveal how Mesopotamian healers sometimes sent patients to sanctuaries as part of treatment.

In a study published in the journal Iraq, Dr. Troels Arbøll analyzed medical prescriptions from ancient Mesopotamia to ...

More than 4,500 years ago, in one of humanity’s earliest civilizations, gender-diverse individuals held respected and ...

The complete genome of an ancient Egyptian has been sequenced, revealing genetic links between the Nile and Mesopotamia 5,000 ...

The history of the planet and the civilizations that have lived on it are among life’s greatest mysteries.People have roamed ...

The 1850 discovery of King Ashurbanipal's vast library of cuneiform tablets at Nineveh illuminated fascinating records and ...

Flower designs on 8,000-year-old Mesopotamian pots reveal a “mathematical knowledge” perhaps developed to share land and ...

Kayaking around the sheltered waters of Bahrain Bay is a little like being a brightly coloured fish in an open-air aquarium.