Short articles on the history of architecture. This week: some of the earliest civilizations known to mankind: Megaliths, Mesopotamia, and Ancient Egypt.

The city’s wealth was reflected in its monumental architecture. Uruk’s ziggurat, dedicated to the Sumerian sky god Anu, was completed by the late fourth millennium B.C. Topped with its White ...

Mesopotamia is a land of many firsts. ... The citizens of this area contributed to many important discoveries and developments in astronomy, mathematics and architecture.

Now, two decades of scientific excavations are revealing a complex urban culture with planned architecture, decorated chlorite vessels, and signs of a writing system that may predate Mesopotamia.

Narrator: Zaha Hadid was born in Baghdad, Iraq, in 1950. On journeys near her home she was inspired by the incredible shapes of the ancient Sumerian architecture. She then moved to London in 1972 ...

Amazon Sumerian lets you build VR/AR spaces in a browser—with an AI guide Built on AWS, the toolkit works in any browser that supports WebGL or WebVR.