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Claiming Plato founded the first university misses the mark. The Greeks were latecomers.

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Archaeologists return to Nineveh in northern Iraq, one of the ancient world’s grandest imperial capitals Archaeologists didn’t know what to expect when they began searching for a 2,700-year-old ...

The Sumerians are often credited with building the world’s first civilization—but where did they come from, and how did their culture emerge so early? In this episode, we explore the theories, ...

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Chogha Zanbil was first spotted from a surveillance airplane in 1935. The excavated complex was discovered to be one of the few ziggurats built outside Mesopotamia. The ruins of the ancient Elamite ...