A symposium on Sumerian civilization and literature was recently held at Peking University, bringing together scholars and ...

The artifacts were excavated from a city dating back to the third millennium B.C.E. by researchers from Iraq and the British ...

The ancient world was replete with a myriad of fascinating civilizations, many of which are no longer remembered.

A fierce rivalry between four scholars ignited a race to crack the world’s oldest writing, unlocking the secrets of Mesopotamia after millennia of silence.

For hundreds of years experts have been trying to find answers as to how the great Minoan civilization of Crete came to an ...

This is the End of the Commons General Store in Mesopotamia, Ohio – a place where sandwich-making isn’t just food preparation, it’s an art form that will ruin you for all other lunches. The ...

Classic board games go digital in this episode of Tech Byte! Learn how technology is taking tabletop gaming to the next level ...

In the Arabian Peninsula a mere 2000 km away, out of sight of the Indus, the Sumerian civilization evolved, taking care of contacts with the Indus Valley. After passing through seven seas, the ...

Archaeologists have uncovered a vast network of canals underneath the world’s oldest city in Mesopotamia, shedding more light on the rise of farming in the region. Researchers, led by ...

Sumerian scribes referred to the land immediately to their ... Knowledge of the history and culture of Elam, and of the Elamite language, is patchy at best. There are a small number of objects ...

A rchaeologist and scholar Giorgio Buccellati’s book At the Origins of Politics describes how Mesopotamia’s urban revolution in the late fourth millennium BC shaped a new mentality. The segmentation ...