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

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

Joshua Hammer’s “The Mesopotamian Riddle” chronicles the 19th-century contest between an archaeologist, a soldier and a clergyman to decipher an ancient text ...

Researchers have identified an extensive Mesopotamian canal network that supplied ancient farms in the Eridu region with water from the Euphrates river before the first millennium B.C.

Ancient Wyvern Coin in Monster Hunter Wilds is a valuable item you can collect on your adventure and then use to trade with the ever-talkative but philosophical Wudwud Rove. This valuable item in ...

Researchers have uncovered a vast and well-preserved network of ancient irrigation canals in the Eridu region of southern Mesopotamia, shedding new light on early farming practices. The research team, ...

The Mesopotamian State Solved the Debt Problem ... What enabled and made this sustained achievement so successful were royal laws to regularly restore economic balance on a system-wide level.

Elam, like Sumeria, is an exochoronym, never used in the region itself. As the first documented polity in what we now call Iran, it remains a lesser-known contemporary of the great Mesopotamian states ...

Researchers have uncovered a vast and well-preserved network of ancient irrigation canals in the Eridu region of southern Mesopotamia, shedding new light on early farming practices. The research team, ...