Far-Flung Postcards is a weekly series in which NPR's international team shares moments from their lives and work around the ...

Learn how the first civilization in Mesopotamia depended on tides and how it responded when faced with a major environmental ...

A century ago, UChicago scholars argued a controversial idea: Western civilization had its roots in the ancient Middle East—not in Greece or Rome. Today, scholars at the OI and across the University ...

How did ancient civilizations accomplish these feats of knowledge without the benefit of telescopes, satellites or computer technology?