Sophie Cunningham, the Indiana Fever guard, has been trending on social media for a couple of weeks now. It started last ...

The term 'Mesopotamia' comes from Greek, meaning 'between two rivers'. The two rivers that the name refers to are the Tigris river and the Euphrates. Unlike many other empires ...

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

Designs on stone cylinders dating back six thousand years correspond to some signs of the proto-cuneiform script that emerged in the city of Uruk, in southern Iraq, around 3350–3000 BCE.

The finding reinforces an idea proposed in earlier research: that cuneiform script — which was developed in early Mesopotamia around 3100 B.C. and is thought to be the earliest writing system ...

Object Details Author Kriwaczek, Paul Notes Originally published: London : Atlantic Books, 2010. Contents Lessons from the past: an Introduction -- Kingship descends from heaven: the urban revolution ...

Are games the meaning of life? The Hobby, a documentary film from Simon Ennis, takes us from the World Board Game ...

Archaeologist and scholar Giorgio Buccellati’s book At the Origins of Politics describes how Mesopotamia’s urban revolution in the late fourth millennium BC shaped a new mentality.