Several gold mines in Queensland may soon reopen as global gold prices continue to rise. Tatenda digs into why this shiny ...

Al-Rashid uses items from the collection as springboards to discuss Mesopotamian history: a statue of King Shulgi leads to an examination of the rise of kings; a cone dedicating a temple to the ...

Some kings, such as Shulgi of Ur (ruled 2094-2047 BC) and Ashurbanipal of Assyria (ruled 668-627 BC), claimed to read many languages and to be able to write cuneiform themselves. In the late fourth ...

Thematic research encompassing 'Power and Difference' includes: emergence, rise, persistence and collapse of complex societies inequality and political organisation early Neolithic social structure ...