The conventional narrative places Mesopotamia at the beginning of civilisation, followed by Egypt, Greece and Rome. India ...

Many millennia ago, the tides turned for ancient Sumerians who built the first civilization - literally. Rising in southern Mesopotamia around 6,000 years ago, Sumer bridged a network of city-states ...

Editor's NoteThe earliest known confectionery can be traced back to the ancient Mesopotamian civilization. In that sense, ...

Among his other achievements, Ashurbanipal is remembered for constructing the Library of Ashurbanipal, believed to have held ...

A major new study led by Swansea University has shown that upstream river management, rather than local rainfall, is the ...

A clay tablet, hidden away in museum archives for decades, has revealed a remarkable story of daily life in ancient ...

There is no doubt that irrigation has changed agriculture for the better. Irrigation is what makes farming in a large portion ...

This video explores the Ziggurat of Ur, Dhi Qar Governorate, Iraq, one of the best-preserved monuments of ancient Mesopotamia ...

Cylinder seals were far more than ancient signatures. They fused art, power, and belief into objects that revealed exactly ...

Pakistan, July 25 -- A new era of anthropology and political economy begins with the unearthing of valuable ancient statues ...

According to a study in ‘Science,’ Earth reached its greatest linguistic diversity between 1,000 and 3,000 years ago, with a ...

The deities may have been intended to spiritually protect the wearer.