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 ...

Recent discoveries challenge ideas of a sharp divide between the haves and have-nots in ancient Mesopotamia ... with the reign of the Babylonian king Hammurabi (1792–1750 BCE).

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 ...

New discoveries at the ancient Mesopotamian site of Kurd Qaburstan by University of Central Florida ... and it’s specifically the organization of Kurd Qaburstan,” Earley-Spadoni says. “You may have ...

A futures contract requires both contract sellers and contract buyers to meet the obligations specified in the contract, ...

A Bethlehem Area school board member decried social media outrage at a Nitschmann Middle School teacher who gave sixth ...

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 ...

Astronomy and astrology were deeply intertwined in ancient civilizations, particularly in Egypt and Mesopotamia, where early astronomers and astrologers made profound contributions that shaped the ...

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.

A local government in India is offering a $1 million prize to the first person who cracks the code of an ancient script found in the ruins of one of the world’s earliest civilizations.

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