These entertaining, deftly organized books will make terrific light-hearted additions to curriculum units on ancient civilizations.

Ancient 'scepters' were actually straws for communal boozing, researchers say The ornate tubes, four of them decorated with bull figurines, were unearthed in 1897 in a type of burial mound beside the remains of a man thought to have been a king.

1st bioengineered hybrid animals discovered — in ancient Mesopotamia