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 ...

Titled Encounter Mesopotamia: An Exhibition of Antiquities From Ancient Syria, the presentation is being co-organized by the national library and the Art Exhibitions China, which is a national ...

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.

About 4,500 years ago, an image of the Sumerian storm god Ningirsu was engraved on a silver vessel now on view in the Getty Villa Museum exhibition “Mesopotamia: Civilization Begins ...

The Getty Villa ends its yearlong pandemic closure on Wednesday. On view: “Mesopotamia: Civilization Begins,” which goes back to the beginning, sort of.

22 September 1956 Early Civilization in Mesopotamia O. R. GURNEY Nature 178, 609–610 (1956) Cite this article ...