They posited that human ingenuity alone couldn’t have produced the surplus needed to feed ancient city-states like Uruk, Ur, and Lagash. Researchers identified a critical piece of the puzzle: hundreds ...

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 ...

The ring became the outer boundary of the Babylonian universe. The bitter river had in it many small rectangles and circles indicating the presence of the many cities and tribes of that time, and also ...

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

“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 ...

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 ...