Over 5,000 years ago, in the scorching heart of ancient Mesopotamia, the city of Uruk rose to become the largest and most advanced settlement in the world. Home to nearly 80,000 people, it boasted ...

Ziggurats were mudbrick temples designed to bridge heaven and earth, anchoring religion, power, and architecture in the ancient Near East for thousands of years.

Fifth grade students from Meadville Elementary School visited the South Boston-Halifax County Museum of Fine Arts and History ...

Protecting youths online will be the defining internet policy battle of 2026. Last year, Australia began implementing the ...

Plantlike designs on pottery made almost 8,000 years ago may be the earliest evidence yet of mathematical thinking. Many of the flower decorations painted on pottery by an ancient culture in northern ...

Despite ongoing concerns if the traditional grading system is equitable and truly reflects student success, the issue of grade request changes is also fraught and puts teachers in a particularly ...

Rising from the plains of southern Iraq, the Great Ziggurat of Ur was built around 2050 BCE as a sacred link between heaven and earth. Dedicated to the moon god Nanna, it stood at the heart of one of ...

The 2025 Rule 5 draft is taking place this afternoon at the Winter Meetings in Orlando. This post will be updated with the results as they come in. As a refresher, the Rule 5 draft is a way for ...

(FOX 5/KUSI) — Traffic on I-5 and surrounding streets along the central San Diego County coastline was snarled for several hours on Friday afternoon as police dealt with an incident where the ...

When the Office of Undergraduate Education released a report in October suggesting that Harvard College overhaul its “failing” evaluation system to curb grade inflation, it acknowledged that other ...

Jason Riley rightly highlights the troubling rise of grade inflation (“How Do You Spell ‘Harvard’? With an Endless Supply of A’s,” Upward Mobility, Nov. 19). In my experience, the problem is ...

Can you chip in? As an independent nonprofit, the Internet Archive is fighting for universal access to quality information. We build and maintain all our own systems, but we don’t charge for access, ...