When a vast library of texts amassed by Mesopotamian King Ashurbanipal was burned to the ground about 2700 years ago, the ...

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Researchers have uncovered a vast and well-preserved network of ancient irrigation canals in the Eridu region of southern ...

Modern historiography has tended to assume that violence was the primary driving force behind the formation of the first ...

The study provided a clear picture of the well-planned ancient irrigation system that once flourished in the region.

Archaeologists have discovered a massive and well-preserved network of ancient irrigation canals in southern Mesopotamia, ...

At first, like most students of the ancient near east, he wanted to work on Mesopotamia. The 2003 invasion of Iraq put paid to that. At Cleuziou’s suggestion he turned instead to Iran and contacted ...

A rchaeologist 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. The segmentation ...

Step back in time at End of the Commons, Ohio’s oldest general store, where history, nostalgia and family-friendly fun make ...