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 ...

OUT OF MESOPOTAMIA By Salar Abdoh “We are not provided with wisdom,” Marcel Proust wrote in “Remembrance of Things Past,” “we must discover it for ourselves, after a journey through the ...

In ancient times, Mesopotamia, meaning 'land between two rivers', was a vast region that lay between the Tigris and Euphrates river systems, and it is where civilization emerged over 7,000 years ago.

Greeks named the legendary, once fertile area Mesopotamia, meaning "the land between the rivers," after the Tigris and Euphrates rivers that once watered it.

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

A radically expanded view of the origin of civilization, extending far beyond Mesopotamia is being proposed. Mesopotamia is widely believed to be the cradle of civilization, but a growing body of ...

Ancient Mesopotamia refers to a region within the Middle East, primarily between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers, where several large and powerful civilizations thrived for thousands of 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 ...

A dictionary of the extinct language of ancient Mesopotamia has been completed after 90 years of work. The Chicago Assyrian Dictionary is 21 volumes long, with many volumes dedicated to a single ...

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.