In southern Iraq, archaeologists have excavated a remarkable collection of carved clay tablets—ancient records of Akkadia, ...

The mystery of a pyramid structure that was found under the sea off the coast of the Azores Islands in 2013 is still puzzling ...

After the immense international success of "La Disparition de Josef Mengele", Olivier Guez returns with "Mesopotamia" – a novel about Gertrude Bell, a young lady from Victorian high society who became ...

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 ...

Which factor led to the development of civilizations in ancient Mesopotamia? Ancient Mesopotamia was characterized by the Tigris and Euphrates rivers, several of which provided much-needed irrigation ...

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

Mesopotamia, a region that includes all of modern-day Iraq ... Far from a monolithic region, the Fertile Crescent was home to many ancient civilizations including Sumer, Akkad, Assyria and Babylonia.

A symposium on Sumerian civilization and literature was recently held at Peking University, bringing together scholars and ...

artistic and political traditions that characterize Western civilization. These ideas emerged during antiquity from societies located primarily in the Eastern and Central Mediterranean, including ...