Clay bricks from the building projects of ancient kings recorded a historical “map” of changes in the Earth’s magnetic field, a new study has found. About 3,000 years ago, for reasons that ...

The project Embodied Emotions: Ancient Mesopotamia and Today was granted funding by the Finnish Cultural Foundation in September 2022 and will run until 2026. It explores how emotions were embodied by ...

In the past, scholars focused on primary texts to paint a picture of ancient life in Mesopotamia. This project, says Frahm, “gives us a chance to establish what people in these ancient worlds thought ...

Archaeologists working at a long-buried city in northern Iraq have unearthed clues that could rewrite part of Mesopotamia’s hidden story. The site, Kurd Qaburstan, sits in the Erbil region and ...

Sixth grade project using Ancient Mesopotamia social studies curriculum and Microsoft Word. In pairs, the students create an ABC book. One student does A-M the other student does N-Z. They brainstorm ...

Researchers have uncovered a vast and well-preserved network of ancient irrigation canals in the Eridu region of southern ...

Ancient Mesopotamia comes alive in Moudhy Al-Rashid's must-read, millennia-spanning history, cleverly wrought from tablets written in the world's oldest script ...

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The discoveries shed new light on life in ancient Mesopotamia. Examples of the cuneiform tablets found, and an aerial view of Fayadia District, Iraq. Photo: Iraqi State Board of Antiquities and ...

Ancient Mesopotamian Texts May Be Oldest Record of Smooches Romantic images on tablets from Mesopotamia could place the earliest evidence of kissing to 2500 BCE. By Kevin Hurler Published May 19 ...

Humanity's earliest recorded kiss occurred in Mesopotamia 4,500 years ago Written sources document that kissing was practiced by the peoples of the ancient Middle East 4,500 years ago, conclude ...