In his new book, “Shade: The Promise of a Forgotten Natural Resource,” environmental journalist Sam Bloch encourages us to ...

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 ...

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 ...

More information: Jaafar Jotheri et al, Identifying the preserved network of irrigation canals in the Eridu region, southern Mesopotamia, Antiquity (2025). DOI: 10.15184/aqy.2025.19 ...

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 ...

As one of the first cities to rise in Mesopotamia, Uruk became a hub in the fourth millennium BCE. Its broad area of influence extended from southwestern Iran and southeastern Turkey. Beginning in ...

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 ...

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The royal tombs of Ur revealed Mesopotamia's golden splendor Leonard Woolley’s excavation of Ur yielded an archaeologist’s dream: a series of intact burials from one of the world's most ...

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 ...