Archaeologists have made a groundbreaking discovery beneath the world’s oldest city, uncovering a vast and intricate network of nearly 200 ancient canals that once sustained early Mesopotamian ...

The Great Ziggurat of Ur dedicated to the Moon god. Ziggurats were massive structure typical for Mesopotamia. Sumerians believed that the gods lived in the temple at the top of the ziggurats. Woods ...

New findings add weight to the theory that nation states didn’t just spring up from any kind of farming – it had to be grain.

A new and spellbinding book tells the history of the very ancient past of Mesopotamia, the land between the rivers Euphrates and Tigris. Between Two Rivers by Moudhy Al-Rashid, a researcher at the ...

Hungarian Journal of English and American Studies (HJEAS), Vol. 30, No. 2 (2024), pp. 280-293 (14 pages) An evolutionary framework of epistemology is presented where different paradigms offer ...

The cultivation of wheat, barley and maize, which are easily stored and taxed, seems to have led to the emergence of large ...

WASHINGTON — Ancient DNA has revealed a genetic link between the cultures of ancient Egypt and Mesopotamia, according to research published Wednesday in the journal Nature. Researchers sequenced whole ...

Globalization, migration, climate change and war—nation states are currently under huge pressure on many fronts.