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

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 ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

Couples in Mesopotamia could have been the first ones smooching as we know it. New research analyzing written records from the area reveals that people in the Cradle of Civilization could have ...

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 ...