Mesopotamia—“the land between two rivers”—gave birth to many of ... II (reigned 605-561 B.C.). Koldewey’s finds revealed an ancient locus of culture and political power.

People in ancient Mesopotamia depended on rivers. But rivers sometime moved, imposing stress on communities. Research shows how this led people to form the first organized governments. Though ...

Mesopotamia, with its dense network of ancient cities in the fertile plains along the Tigris and Euphrates rivers near the Persian Gulf, is often regarded as the birthplace of urban civilization.

In the 19th Century, European scholars began to translate inscriptions found on ruins and clay tablets from ancient Mesopotamia - an area of the world between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers that ...

Well, it’ll be history. The place where the Tigris and Euphrates rivers met was called the Sumer. Ancient Sumer was in the southern part of a place called Mesopotamia. Most of the area now falls ...