THE delightful certainty which characterises the youth of an individual not infrequently finds its analogue in the initial phases of a science. At the outset assertion is dogmatic inversely to the ...

What we know about Babylonia is mostly derived from clay tablets. Tens of thousands of these cuneiform texts have been found in the last century and for some periods these tell us a great deal about ...

British Museum Quarterly is a scholarly journal published by the British Museum from 1926-1973. It is a journal dealing with recent British Museum acquisitions and research concerning the Museum's ...

A remarkable object—an intricate piece of jewelry delicately made out of gold and silver—came to light in recent excavations in Jerusalem by archaeologists at the University of North Carolina at ...

There's rarely time to write about every cool science-y story that comes our way. So this year, we're once again running a special Twelve Days of Christmas series of posts, highlighting one science ...