Perched on the edge of a river near the city of Siirt, Türkiye, is an archaeological site that offers a chance to completely ...

But what happened in Mesopotamia to prompt such revolutionary changes ... that had become the fashion in Ur just as it became ...

Sumerian civilization appears to have evolved in Southern Mesopotamia around 4000 BC, while some historians place it as far ...

But what happened in Mesopotamia to prompt such revolutionary changes ... that had become the fashion in Ur just as it became what we might now recognize as a city-state: a dense settlement of people ...

This idea, promoted by theorists ranging from Hobbes to Tilly, has dominated interpretations of early state development ... an alternative perspective on violence in Middle Bronze Age Mesopotamia. The ...

Greek sources portrayed the Achaemenid kings, as indulgent and ruthless—all but Cyrus II. Why was this enemy ruler the only ...

Set in ancient Mesopotamia, Sumerians allows you to build up a small ... Less a city builder and more a city-state builder, Songs of Syx lets you dive into the minutiae of your residents' lives and ...

“Sargon developed this new form of governance by conquering all the Sumerian cities of Mesopotamia, creating what most historians call the first empire in the world,” Girsu Project Director ...

The teenagers’ skeletons were unearthed at the cemetery of Basur Höyük where researchers previously uncovered evidence of ...

Finally, these finds demonstrate how the Akkadians managed a Sumerian city, especially one located on the frontier of the empire itself.” Taher Quinn, an archaeologist from the State Board of ...

The cities of ancient Mesopotamia in theory all belonged to the gods. The society worked for the temple state.” As well as names, jobs, plans of buildings and maps, the texts also recorded deliveries ...

The late political scientist enjoined readers to look for opposition to authoritarian states not in revolutionary vanguards ...