A newly spotlighted artifact from ancient Mesopotamia is offering a rare window into how one of the world’s earliest ...

The rivers also facilitated trade and transportation ... was the last major ancient empire to rule Mesopotamia. The Persians were known for their art, literature, and philosophical advancements ...

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

Mesopotamia—“the land between two rivers”—gave birth to many of ... II (reigned 605-561 B.C.). Koldewey’s finds revealed an ancient locus of culture and political power.

Well, it’ll be history. The place where the Tigris and Euphrates rivers met was called the Sumer. Ancient Sumer was in the southern part of a place called Mesopotamia. Most of the area now falls ...

resulting in the formation of lakes and rivers about 9,000 years ago. This is the key finding from an international, interdisciplinary team that documented an ancient water-sculpted landscape in ...

It is one of the oldest and greatest stores of knowledge: a vast library of texts amassed by Assyrian King Ashurbanipal, who ruled ancient Mesopotamia about 2700 years ago. But after his death ...

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?