The first convert Avram made was a neighbor named Eved Shemesh from the city of Damascus, He was a sun worshiper. Once, when Eved Shemesh got a bad sunburn, Avram asked him if the sun god was angry at ...

(AP Video: Ali Jabar) Dr Jaafar al Jotheri holds satellite images and explores the site of the Battle of al-Qadisiyah, which was fought in Mesopotamia - present-day Iraq - in the 630s AD between Arab ...

(AP Photo/Mouta Ali, File) Updated [hour]:[minute] [AMPM] [timezone], [monthFull] [day], [year] N’DJAMENA, Chad (AP) — Boko Haram insurgents killed 17 Chadian soldiers in a weekend attack on a ...

Boko Haram launched an insurgency in Nigeria in 2009, leaving more than 40,000 people dead and displacing millions. It has since spread to neighboring countries ...

TRIBUTES have been paid to a hard-working Bradford window cleaner who has been described as a “kind gentleman who always put others first”. Bradford man Kenneth Haran, who was born in ...

It’s important to use the right words when writing about writing. Scholars studying the history of it distinguish between pre-writing symbols used to mark objects and more precise marks that establish ...

In Mesopotamia, the birthplace of civilization, the earliest known writing system started around 3,000 BCE. Developed by the Sumerians and written on clay tablets, the first cuneiform is largely ...

New research traces Mesopotamia origins of writing back to trade symbols. Credit: Metropolitan Museum of Art / CC0 Researchers have found the origins of writing and explained that the world’s oldest ...

Study authors explained that stamp seals were used on clay for administrative purposes from the late seventh millennium BCE and onward in Northern Mesopotamia. “Shared seal imagery ...

The origins of writing in Mesopotamia lie in the images imprinted by ancient cylinder seals on clay tablets and other artifacts. A research group from the University of Bologna has identified a ...

The origins of writing in Mesopotamia lie in the images imprinted by ancient cylinder seals on clay tablets and other artifacts. A research group from the University of Bologna has identified a ...

Some of the symbols on these cylinder seals correspond to those used in proto-cuneiform, a form of proto-writing used in Mesopotamia. The finding indicates that the invention of writing in ...