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

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 ...

Archaeological finds from cuneiform tablets and remnants of different vessels from over 4,000 years ago show that even around the dawn of civilisation, fermented cereal juice was highly enjoyed by ...

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

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 ...

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

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.

A radically expanded view of the origin of civilization, extending far beyond Mesopotamia is being proposed. Mesopotamia is widely believed to be the cradle of civilization, but a growing body of ...

“She Who Wrote: Enheduanna and Women of Mesopotamia ca. 3400-2000 B.C. at the Morgan proves the world's first author was a woman, not a man. And she wrote in the first person.

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