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An Akkadian cylinder seal, circa 2350-2150 B.C.E., depicts a contest scene. The image on the right shows the impression the seal would make. Gift of Nanette B. Kelekian, in memory of Charles Dikran and Beatrice Kelekian, 1999/Metropolitan Museum of Art

Signatures meant more in Mesopotamia than they do now − what...

Serdar Yalçin, Macalester College The earliest form of the signature came from ancient Iraq in the form of cylinder...

How an unexpected observation, a 10th-century recipe and an explorer’s encounter...

Bronwen Powell, Penn State and Abderrahim Ouarghidi, Penn State For generations, collard greens have formed an important part of...

Trouble on the Belarus-Poland border: What you need to know about...

Tatsiana Kulakevich, University of South Florida Using migrants as pawns is perhaps nothing new. But rarely do you have...

As a patriot and Black man, Colin Powell embodied the ‘two-ness’...

Chad Williams, Brandeis University Colin Powell knew where he fit in American history. The former secretary...

What schools teach about 9/11 and the war on terror

Jeremy Stoddard, University of Wisconsin-Madison and Diana Hess, University of Wisconsin-Madison The phrase “Never Forget” is often associated with...

20 years of ‘forever’ wars have left a toll on US...

Marian Eide, Texas A&M University Military service members returning from America’s “forever” wars in Iraq and Afghanistan have often...

Brewing Mesopotamian beer brings a sip of this vibrant ancient drinking...

Tate Paulette, North Carolina State University It’s been about five months since I set foot in a bar. Like many of you navigating life in...

Trump asks NATO allies for help with Iran after years of...

Klaus W. Larres, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill U.S. President Donald Trump took a tough line in his address to the nation Jan....

EXPLORING NATURE

Trump’s EPA decides climate change doesn’t endanger public health – the...

Jonathan Levy, Boston University; Howard Frumkin, University of Washington; Jonathan Patz, University of Wisconsin-Madison, and Vijay Limaye, University of Wisconsin-Madison