It's time to punch the timeclock and head out because it's beer o'clock. Here's a record of the earliest known such time. It's a cuniform tablet that is 5,000 years old.Archaeologists found it at Uruk (you know, from Sta...

The Temple of Bel in Syria was an ancient structur...  ...a was an ancient structure built all the way back Mesopotamia . It managed to survive up until August of last ye...

In 1988, Robert Fink published an article in Archaeologica Musica describing how a scholar was able to translate tablets from the ancient Levantine city of Ugarit. These tablets, which date back to about 1,400 B.C., cont...

Did you hear the one about the j...  ...ng a 3,500-year old tablet from ancient Mesopotamia have intepreted riddles and jokes about (surprise...