But it was in southern Mesopotamia that money became formalized as a measure ... You can read more of Hudson’s economic history on the Observatory. This text is adapted from Michael Hudson’s foreword ...

At the threshold of written history, when the first civilizations began to consolidate in Mesopotamia and Anatolia, the world ...

The burial chamber most likely belonged to a ruler in a line of kings once lost to history, researchers said. “It’s a new ...

Photograph by Werner Forman, GTRES This story appears in the January/February 2017 issue of National Geographic History magazine. Mesopotamia—“the land between two rivers”—gave birth to ...

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 ...

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 oldest known example of writing comes from Mesopotamia and dates to about ... that hard-working individuals throughout history have always wanted their glass of beer? Well, this most ancient ...

The concept of credit can be said to date back thousands of years ago to ancient Mesopotamia ... identify your creditworthiness based on your history of handling loans. This includes things ...

While interhuman relationships may go back to the early years of humanity, there is one ritual known the world over that has a much more recent history: marriage. Evidence suggests that marriage ...