Students and staff at Trinity College Dublin have produced the world's first film in the ancient - and dead - Sumerian ...

The short film starring Trinity students and directed by Prof Martin Worthington is available on YouTube with subtitles in ...

Director and producer Professor Martin Worthington said Sumerian 'is probably the world’s first written language and died out around 2000 BCE' ...

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From locker room conversations to video game battles, Dylan Harper and Carter Bryant are making the most of their vets ...

A new book argues that civilizations built on centralized wealth and power contain the seeds of their own destruction.

For over 3,000 years, civilizations that never met and never shared a language somehow imagined the same terrifying place: a realm of judgment, suffering, and cosmic consequence. From Mesopotamia’s ...

Globalization, migration, climate change and war—nation states are currently under huge pressure on many fronts. Understanding the forces that initially drove the emergence of states across the world ...

The cultivation of wheat, barley and maize, which are easily stored and taxed, seems to have led to the emergence of large ...

New research reveals why not just agriculture but also cereal grains were crucial to the formation of humanity’s first states ...

The Council of Nicaea gathered an already overwhelmingly Gentile Christianity, debating the identity of a Jewish Messiah in Greek philosophical terms, at a moment when Arian and semi-Arian currents ...

Woohoo in Dubai is betting on artificial intelligence technology to change the city’s culinary scene, with plans to license ...