A symposium on Sumerian civilization and literature was recently held at Peking University, bringing together scholars and ...

Modern civilization, however ... Factors in the Emergence of ‘Public’ and ‘Private’ Domains in Early Mesopotamia,” in Hudson, Michael and Levine, Baruch (eds.), Privatization in the ...

How Mesopotamia’s Urban and Industrial Revolution Started Politics as We Know It Today Story by Michael Hudson • 11h A rchaeologist and scholar Giorgio Buccellati’s book At the Origins of Politics ...

The artifacts were excavated from a city dating back to the third millennium B.C.E. by researchers from Iraq and the British ...

The Benson Center promotes study of the intellectual, artistic and political traditions that characterize Western civilization. These ideas emerged during antiquity from societies located primarily in ...

What was the Ancient Sumer civilisation? Ancient Sumer was in the southern part of a place called Mesopotamia. Learn about what life was like in this civilisation. When was Ancient Sumer?