First developed in Sumer, an ancient Mesopotamian city ... What is the Fertile Crescent? Where is it and what ancient civilizations lived there? What was life like in the world's oldest cities? And ...

The presence of dependable water created optimal conditions for agriculture and urban settlements. Far from a monolithic region, the Fertile Crescent was home to many ancient civilizations including ...

Ancient civilizations have always fascinated historians and the public. Because of how different the modern world is, we tend ...

When people think of ancient civilizations, their minds often drift to the best pyramids of ancient Egypt or the Roman ruins and structures still in use today. Yet scattered across the pages of ...