A group of scientists has sequenced the genome of a man who was buried in Egypt around 4,500 years ago. The study offers rare ...

Tides, rivers, and shifting coasts shaped Sumer, the world’s first urban society - offering lessons for today’s climate ...

Learn how the first civilization in Mesopotamia depended on tides and how it responded when faced with a major environmental ...

A newly published study challenges long-held assumptions about the origins of urban civilization in ancient Mesopotamia, suggesting that the rise of Sumer was driven by the dynamic interplay of rivers ...

Mesopotamian scribes wrote about feeling anger in their feet and love in their liver. Learn about the similarities and ...

The subject of research is Mesopotamia and its neighboring countries (northern Syria, Anatolia, Elam), ie landscapes in which cuneiform writing was written at certain times, and, secondarily, more ...

The idea of Mesopotamia has intoxicated the West for centuries. Alastair Sooke takes a look at a civilisation where much of modern culture took form.

The word "Mesopotamia," is an ancient Greek name that is sometimes translated as "the land between two rivers" — the rivers being the Euphrates and the Tigris, both of which originate in eastern ...

It may be noted, in passing, that Arpachiyah sup ports and extends the evidence obtained by the American School of Oriental Research at Tepe Gawra and Tell Billa that northern Mesopotamia was a ...

“Out of Mesopotamia,” by Salar Abdoh, is as much a meditation on time and memory as it is a book about modern warfare.

The archaeological subdivision of the Early Dynastic period of Mesopotamia into ED I, II, and III was established in the 1930s during excavations conducted by the Iraq Expedition of the Oriental ...