World’s oldest city was not in Mesopotamia: 6,000-year-old sites challenge history. Story by Maria Mocerino • 1w. R ecent archaeological discoveries are rewriting the narrative of human history.

I ndeed, much of what humanity categorizes as “recorded history” spans little more than the last five thousand years. In the ...

Between Two Rivers Moudhy Al-Rashid (Hachette (UK, 20 February); W. W. Norton (US, 12 August)). A new and spellbinding book tells the history of the very ancient past of Mesopotamia, the land ...

The idea of Mesopotamia has intoxicated the West for centuries. Alastair Sooke takes a look at a civilisation where much of modern culture took form. “Everybody has heard of the Hanging Gardens ...

Sexuality was central to life in ancient Mesopotamia, an area of the Ancient Near East often described as the cradle of western civilisation roughly corresponding to modern-day Iraq, Kuwait, and ...

We have the text of lots of poems from ancient Mesopotamia, and it seems likely that some were originally songs of a sort. We have the words, but the music was either not written down or is lost.

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A radically expanded view of the origin of civilization, extending far beyond Mesopotamia is being proposed. Mesopotamia is widely believed to be the cradle of civilization, but a growing body of ...

THE thesis which it is proposed to outline here embodies the following propositions: (1) Available evidence points to Mesopotamia as the oldest known centre of scientific observation permanently ...

The clay message was sent from someone called Nanni to an Ea-nasir in ancient Mesopotamia, ... Ancient customer-feedback technology lasts millennia. By Chris Baraniuk. 2 March 2015 ...

The invention of written language. The social organization of tens of thousands of people. The reason why an hour has 60 minutes. An exhibition at the Royal Ontario Museum looks at 3,000 years of ...