Photograph by Werner Forman, GTRES This story appears in the January/February 2017 issue of National Geographic History magazine. Mesopotamia ... of Islam. The site of Babylon was first ...

Researchers have discovered an extensive and remarkably well-preserved system of ancient irrigation canals in the Eridu ...

New discoveries by a UCF researcher and her team at the ancient Mesopotamian site of Kurd Qaburstan ... and shed light on the more hidden history of Mesopotamia. The clay tablets are the first ...

However, a recent study published in the Journal of the Economic and Social History of the Orient challenges this notion and offers an alternative perspective on violence in Middle Bronze Age ...