Mesopotamia, between the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers, became the cradle of civilization due to its fertile land and the development of irrigation, which supported the growth of city-states like Ur ...

McCarron’s new book, The Wounded Tigris: A River Journey through the Cradle of Civilization, is the sobering yet often funny and poignant account of their journey. The book is a celebration of Iraq’s ...

Scientists have long known that beer played an important role in ancient Mesopotamia, widely known as the cradle of human civilization, but they struggled to find concrete evidence of the beverage ...

This country, which is known as the Cradle of Civilisation, is not Greece or Rome, not even Egypt - but Iraq. Originally known as Mesopotamia, the land was profoundly fertile thanks to the great ...

But is it the brilliant ancient relics assembles here that people come to see, in what is sometimes called the “cradle of Chinese civilization.” While digging a well in 1974, farmers from ...

The Fertile Crescent, often referred to as “the cradle of civilization,” is the crescent-shaped region in Western Asia and North Africa that spans the modern-day countries of Iraq, Turkey, Syria, ...

US Vice President J.D. Vance has warned Europeans about the risk of “civilizational suicide” due to their lax border control ...