Mental health experts from Jersey Shore Medical Center explain how jumping straight to action without proper preparation ...

Celebrating the New Year was a popular custom around the world in ancient times. How was it celebrated in Alexander the Great ...

New Year’s celebrations have a rich history that predates modern civilization. The earliest known celebration occurred around 4,000 years ago in ancient Mesopotamia with the Babylonian festival of ...

As the new year approaches, many of us will be compiling our New Year’s resolutions, a tradition that dates back to 2000 B.C. in ancient Babylon. The Babylonians held their ...

The beginning of January is when many people traditionally resolve to start a new, though sometimes challenging, habit and ...

Every January, resolutions rush in with familiar promises, but the habit traces back far beyond modern planners and fresh ...

Relentlessly, time passes, the calendar advances, and nobody can guess what’s coming next. Each new year is a leap into the unknown future. Keep your fingers crossed and hope for ...

The actual phrase “New Year’s resolution” seems to have become common by the early nineteenth century. By the later ...

Understanding New Year history is to understand humanity’s obsession with renewal itself. From the LED-lit canyons of Times Square to the water-drenched streets of Bangkok, the New Year persists ...

These ruins of the city of Babylon in Iraq date to the Neo-Babylonian Empire (626–539 B.C.). A 22-inch-high basalt stela depicting Babylon’s king Nabonidus (r. 556–539 B.C.) shows him wearing a ...

SCRIBE STATUE. FOUND: Lagash, Iraq. CULTURE: Sumerian. DATE: ca. 2400 B.C. LANGUAGE: Sumerian. In early 2016, hundreds of media outlets around the world reported that a set of recently deciphered ...

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