In 1754 BCE, King Hammurabi of Babylon etched a radical idea into stone: accountability. His code declared that if a builder’s negligence caused a house to collapse, killing its owner, the builder ...

A new and spellbinding book tells the history of the very ancient past of Mesopotamia, the land between the rivers Euphrates and Tigris. Between Two Rivers by Moudhy Al-Rashid, a researcher at the ...

This is believed to be the first ... Discovery of 'Punk' and 'Emo' Fossils Challenges Our Understanding of Ancient Molluscs Jan. 8, 2025 — Researchers have unearthed two fossils, named Punk and ...

Ancient civilisations like Egypt, Mesopotamia and Greece depended on people who could count and analyse ... Legal systems and the study of law have played a vital role in human society for centuries.

What's CODE SWITCH? It's the fearless conversations about race that you've been waiting for. Hosted by journalists of color, our podcast tackles the subject of race with empathy and humor.

A team of researchers are using Artificial Intelligence algorithms and X-ray imaging to read an illegible scroll that may hold significant philosophical notes made by ancient Greek and Roman scholars.

February 12, 2025 • How the criminal legal system considers who is and isn't Native, and what that means for the Black people who are members of tribal nations. This reporting is part of an ...