Since acquiring the tablet in 1882, the British Museum made a significant breakthrough when it found a piece that had been missing.

Discover how early humans transitioned from nomadic lifestyles to building the world’s first civilizations through agriculture, urbanization, and technological innovation. This video explores the rise ...

The story of how the first cities rose from southern Mesopotamia has long fascinated scientists and historians. Many ...

Journal of the Economic and Social History of the Orient, Vol. 39, No. 1 (1996), pp. 1-41 (41 pages) The reconstruction of ancient Near Eastern history has mainly concentrated on urban (and especially ...

Ancient Babylonian world map from a clay tablet, nearly 3,000 years old, reveals a version of the Noah's Ark story and mythical lands.

“Mesopotamia: Civilization Begins” features artworks on loan from Musée du Louvre, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Bibliothèque nationale de France, and Musée Auguste Grasset – Varzy. (Getty Museum) (The ...

New research introduces a paleoenvironmental model in which tidal dynamics influenced the earliest development of agriculture ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Ancient DNA has revealed a genetic link between the cultures of ancient Egypt and Mesopotamia, according to research published Wednesday in the journal Nature. Researchers sequenced ...

WASHINGTON — Ancient DNA has revealed a genetic link between the cultures of ancient Egypt and Mesopotamia, according to research published Wednesday in the journal Nature. Researchers sequenced whole ...