Opinion - When I was a student at Lukanga Adventist Secondary School, I was among the few privileged to deliver the grand ...

Modern historiography has tended to assume that violence was the primary driving force behind the formation of the first ...

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

The Archimedes screw, an ancient Greek invention for lifting water. Learn about its origins, how it works, and its modern ...

The finds, which also include dozens of clay sealings, contain details of a metric system used to measure resources, as well ...

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 ...

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

Oxford historian, Dr Moudhy Al Rashid, on her book Between Two Rivers: Ancient Mesopotamia and the Birth of History ...

Priests, princes, or plenty? The only way to answer these questions is to dig deep, and this is what archaeologists have done for hundreds of years in the tall mounds of built-up mudbrick that are the ...

Credit: Discovering Mesopotamia. Archaeologist and scholar ... long series of Harvard-based colloquia to compile an economic history of the Bronze Age Near Eastern origins of money and interest ...