A significant portion of human development and history may be traced back to the ancient civilization of Mesopotamia, in and around present-day Iraq. The study of these new tablets could reveal ...

Settled around 4500 B.C.E. in modern-day Iraq, Sumer is the world’s oldest known civilization ... the British Museum’s curator for ancient Mesopotamia, tells the Observer’s Dalya Alberge.

Researchers have uncovered a vast and well-preserved network of ancient irrigation canals in the Eridu region of southern Mesopotamia, shedding new light on early farming practices. The research ...

The Mesopotamian State Solved the Debt Problem That Western Civilization ... in Early Mesopotamia,” in Hudson, Michael and Levine, Baruch (eds.), Privatization in the Ancient Near East and ...

Oxford historian, Dr Moudhy Al Rashid, on her book Between Two Rivers: Ancient Mesopotamia and the Birth of History ...

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

VEX.2020.1.2) In Mesopotamia: Civilization Begins, the new exhibition at the Getty Villa, the Getty does indeed start at the very beginning. At a place in what we now call Iraq, between the Tigris ...

All the latest game footage and images from Sid Meier's Civilization V: Cradle of Civilization Map Pack - Mesopotamia by Firaxis Games | 2010 2 / 4 3 / 4 4 / 4 2 / 4 3 / 4 4 / 4 ...

This course surveys some important issues and tendencies in the history of Western Civilization from its origins through the early modern period, including ancient Mesopotamia, classical Greece and ...

The Sumerians were the people of southern Mesopotamia, with their civilization ... the book vividly showcases the ancient civilization's unique allure. Zhang Yu, editor-in-chief of Yilin Press ...