Ae spoke about how the production of beer dates back to the ancient Sumerians, where it was done by women who ... playing an old Viking lyre instrument known as a tagelharpa, building a model ...

A new study reveals how ancient Greek and Roman music sounded using exact tuning and intonation based on 61 preserved pieces.

In the ruins of the ancient Assyrian metropolis Nineveh, in modern Iraq, researchers have unearthed a rare artifact: a ...

Three ancient artifacts from the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art were officially returned to Iraq on Monday ...

Excavations on unpromising mounds in the Iraqi desert revealed Sumer’s earliest city. Surviving relics and a rebuilt temple have given experts more clues about the ancient metropolis of Eridu.

Have you ever wondered what music might have sounded like thousands of years ago, during the height of the Greek and Roman ...

Ancient composers were aware of this problem and meticulously avoided it in lyre music. In contrast, in vocal pieces, they accepted this imperfection and made it part of the performance. Instead of ...

This is the first time that major deities have been found depicted on a relief from an ancient Assyrian palace.

A team from Heidelberg University excavating in Iraq made a spectacular find: In the throne room of the North Palace of King ...

An earthquake in Croatia led to a chain of events that helped archaeologists recently discover an ancient Roman theater, officials say. Croatia’s Ministry of Culture and Media announced the find ...

Many ancient and modern pagan traditions, far from glorifying domination, emphasize reverence for nature, communal rituals, humility and the interdependence of all life. To equate all paganism ...

In an archaeological first, German researchers have found a depiction of major Assyrian deities carved onto a relief.