Mesopotamia News

December is here and with it our annual debate over what to call our big year-end holiday.

For a continent that is the cradle of civilization, it is sad that only meanings invented elsewhere get affixed to words.

High school students across the United States will read The Iliad, Homer's famed epic poem,this school year.

Traditionally, scientists have thought that we learn to use numbers the same way we learn how to drive a car or to text with two thumbs The oldest evidence of people using numbers dates back about 30,000 years: bones and antlers scored with notches that are considered by archaeologists to be tallying marks.

Numbers make modern life possible. "In a world without numbers," University of Rochester neuroscientist Jessica Cantlon and her colleagues recently observed in the journal Trends in Cognitive Sciences , "we would be unable to build a skyscraper, hold a national election, plan a wedding, or pay for a chicken at the market." The central role of ...

They Might Be Giants: Dan Solder Miller ; John Flansburgh ; John Linnell ; Danny Weinkauf ; Marty Beller .

FOR thousands of years people have shivered to tales of "undead" souls who drink the blood of the living - and it is still going on today.

Cleveland Institute of Art student Chris McConnell converted 600 pounds of junkyard debris into a sculpture titled "Progression." His work will be on display at the Geauga Park District's West Woods Nature Center as part of the "discARTed" recycled art exhibit.

The Cleveland Museum of Natural History has an interest in preserving nearly 1,000 acres of land in Hartford and Fowler.

There seems to be a great enigma in human history and the evolution of the Homo sapiens.

Believers of ancient astronaut theory like Erich Von Daniken, author of the popular book, "Chariots of the Gods", and Zecharia Sitchin, author of many books on the subject, both maintain that historical gaps and unexplained archaeological records can't dismiss the fact that ancient civilization was far advanced in technical culture and aware of ...

The biggest "beer bust" in the universe is almost over. Only four days remain before beer-sodden Germans gather up their steins and quietly go back to their normal lives.

Phlebotomy is a term that came to be in the 20th century, as the process of drawing blood for medical testing.

Authorities in northern Iraq have arrested three men on charges they were trying to traffic stolen antiquities, including the bust of a Sumerian king, a local army commander said Saturday.

People have been eating pickles ever since the Mesopotamians started making them way back in 2400 B.C.E. Here are some even more important things you should know about them.

Bruce McAllester , 57, was a city kid, growing up on Cleveland's West Side. After dropping out of Ohio State, he began drinking heavily and hanging out on the streets.

Bruce McAllester , 57, was a city kid, growing up on Cleveland's West Side. After dropping out of Ohio State, he began drinking heavily and hanging out on the streets.

Of course, we think every archaeological discovery reported in BAR is important - from the smallest seal or ostracon to the largest imposing fortress.

All ancient civilizations entered historical times with a flourishing musical culture.

The construction of the temples of Nickern, on the site that is now Dresden, puts the first civilisations of Europe at the forefront of early human endeavour to master nature.