People in ancient Mesopotamia depended on rivers. But rivers sometime moved, imposing stress on communities. Research shows how this led people to form the first organized governments.

Shifting tides along the coast of the ancient region called Mesopotamia might have spurred the rise of the world’s oldest ...

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

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

According to her, the Sumerian civilization in Mesopotamia and Chinese civilization, as represented by the Yellow River, are two of the most important early civilizations in history.

The ancient region in which the first Sumerian cities emerged is called Mesopotamia. In Greek it means "between the rivers". The Euphrates and the Tigris proved ideal for supplying water to nearby ...

Want to visit the cradle of civilisation? Unfortunately, much of Mesopotamia―the mythical land between the mighty Tigris and Euphrates rivers―is in Iraq. The good news is that the attractive ...

Assyriologist Al-Rashid debuts with an eclectic history of Mesopotamia framed around an ancient collection of artifacts widely considered to be the first museum. Located in a room in a palace in ...

This article tries to clarify the problem of Mesopotamia's exports, which by an historically unfortunate accident seem to have been of a perishable nature. In addition to the better known exports of ...