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.

An Honorary Fellow at Oxford University's Wolfson College, Moudhy has spent much of her career translating the stories of the ...

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.

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 ...