The origins of writing in Mesopotamia lie in the images imprinted by ancient cylinder seals on clay tablets and other artifacts. A research group from the University of Bologna has identified a ...

The origins of writing in Mesopotamia lie in the images imprinted by ancient cylinder seals on clay tablets and other ...

The finding reinforces an idea proposed in earlier research: that cuneiform script — which was developed in early Mesopotamia around 3100 B.C. and is thought to be the earliest writing system ...

The earliest recorded kiss goes back at least 4,500 years to Mesopotamia. Researchers cite clay tablets and other materials that push back evidence of kissing by about 1,000 years.

EXPECTATION of the importance of the results likely to be obtained by the joint expedition of the British Museum and the British School of Archæology in Iraq to Tell Arpachiyah in northern ...

Most travel on some kind of road everyday, but how did they get there? Here's the long and winding history of roads and highways from Mesopotamia to modern day.

Humanity's earliest recorded kiss dates back to around 4,500 years ago in the ancient Middle East - 1,000 years earlier than previously thought, according to researchers.

Archaeologist and scholar Giorgio Buccellati’s book At the Origins of Politics describes how Mesopotamia’s urban revolution in the late fourth millennium BC shaped a new mentality. The ...

Are games the meaning of life? The Hobby, a documentary film from Simon Ennis, takes us from the World Board Game ...