This royal headgear was one of the artifacts found in the graves in the Royal Cemetery at Ur, and the decorations identified ...

Progress” is coming in for a bit of a kicking lately. The idea that life on this planet is advancing towards perfection, or at least improving in some way – usually measured in terms such as economic ...

Environmental journalist Sam Bloch encourages us to look to the past for solutions to our ever-warming world in his new book ...

Scientists have unlocked the genetic code of an ancient Egyptian man. He lived near the pyramids around 4,500 years ago. The ...

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 ...

Mesopotamia encompassed what today are Iraq, eastern Syria, southeast Turkey, and parts of Iran and Kuwait. Beginning around 10,000 B.C., Mesopotamia became a hotbed of cultural developments ...

Mesopotamia gave birth to a writing system that many scholars believe is the oldest in the world, dating back to more than 5,200 years ago. Written on clay tablets, this writing system is often ...

New research has revealed that the first kiss in recorded history took place at least 4,500 years ago in Mesopotamian ...

Mesopotamia is widely believed to be the cradle of civilization, but a growing body of evidence suggests that in addition to Mesopotamia, many civilized urban areas existed at the same time ...

Mesopotamia encompassed what today are Iraq, eastern Syria, southeast Turkey, and parts of Iran and Kuwait. Beginning around 10,000 B.C., Mesopotamia became a hotbed of cultural developments ...