Mesopotamia, located in the fertile valley between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers, was one of the cradles of civilization around 6000 years ago and the birthplace of the first writing system. Each ...

For many years, scientists simply mapped these "gardens" to calculate the yield of the ancient islanders' crops ... that emerged in the region known as Mesopotamia. The Harappans, best known ...

On a July morning in Baghdad in 1958, Iraq’s constitutional monarchy came to a brutal end ... of World War I that Britain first occupied Mesopotamia, then part of the Ottoman Empire.

A team of archaeologists in Iraq, led by Sebastian Rey, the British Museum’s curator of ancient Mesopotamia, has uncovered compelling evidence of the empire’s formidable bureaucracy.

These are the most powerful empires in history and all they accomplished… Universal History Archive/Universal Images Group via Getty Images An ancient kingdom ... Akkadian Empire was the first empire ...

A new and spellbinding book tells the history of the very ancient past of Mesopotamia, the land between the rivers Euphrates and Tigris. Between Two Rivers by Moudhy Al-Rashid, a researcher at the ...

Ancient Mesopotamian people experienced love in a rather similar way to people today. In Mesopotamia, love was particularly associated with the liver, heart and knees. Modern: PNAS / Lauri ...

“Even in ancient Mesopotamia, there was a rough understanding of anatomy,” said Professor Saana Svärd of the University of Helsinki, an assyriologist and lead researcher of the study, in a press ...

Researchers from the University of Bologna have unveiled how ancient cylinder seals played a key role in the development of writing in ancient Mesopotamia, marking a significant breakthrough in ...

The origins of writing in Mesopotamia lie in the images imprinted by ancient cylinder seals on clay tablets and other artifacts. A research group from the University of Bologna has identified a ...

The discoveries shed new light on life in ancient Mesopotamia. Examples of the cuneiform tablets found, and an aerial view of Fayadia District, Iraq. Photo: Iraqi State Board of Antiquities and ...

The ruins of the Temple of Athena Nike, 427-424 BC: A symbolization of individualism’s duality as a force for achievement and political demise in ancient Greece ... civilizations like Egypt, ...