These are the events and people that shaped the history of travel, from early pilgrimages and the Age of Discovery, to the ...

Located in the Arctic Ocean, between the Chukchi Sea and the East Siberian Sea, Wrangel Island is a 7,600 km² enclave, equivalent in size to Crete. It is part of Russia’s Chukotka Autonomous District ...

3 In the paper Different Types of Egalitarian Societies and the Development of Inequality in Early Mesopotamia (2007), Marcella Frangipane argues that the commodification of foodstuffs, land, and ...

Let’s take a look. New Year festivities date back to at least 2000 BC in ancient Mesopotamia, where present-day Iraq is located. These celebrations, which could last up to 12 days, kickstarted on the ...

Meanwhile, the TIMES magazine said the oldest recorded new year festivities date back to 2000 BC in ancient Mesopotamia, where Iraq is now. In China, the year begins on the second new moon ...