Many millennia ago, the tides turned for ancient Sumerians who built the first civilization - literally. Rising in southern Mesopotamia around 6,000 years ago, Sumer bridged a network of city-states ...

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 Ur ...

One of three clay cuneiform tablets discovered at the Middle Bronze Age site of Kurd Qaburstan in northeast Iraq. It was found in a debris-filled corridor in the lower town palace. Early ...

Catalog of an exhibition held at the J. Paul Getty Museum at the Getty Villa, Malibu, from March 18-July 27, 2020. Translated and adapted from L'histoire commence en Mésopotamie, which was published ...

"The Greek name Mesopotamia means "land between the rivers." Romans used this term for the area between the Euphrates and Tigris rivers, from the south Anatolian mountains ranges to the Persian Gulf, ...

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One of three stone tablets found in northeastern Iraq that may reveal more information about Mesopotamian life. University of Central Florida, courtesy of Tiffany Earley-Spadoni An ancient game board, ...

Ancient Mesopotamia, the region roughly encompassing modern-day Iraq, Kuwait and parts of Syria, Iran and Turkey, gave us what we could consider some of the earliest known literary “superheroes”. The ...

Today, trans people face politicization of their lives and vilification from politicians, media and parts of broader society. But in some of history's earliest civilizations, gender-diverse people ...

In eastern Europe, in Ukraine, a site discovered more than fifty years ago is drawing renewed attention from researchers. A team of archaeologists believes it may be one of the oldest cities in the ...