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Today we’re cooking one of the oldest known recipes in the world! That’s right, we’re travelling back in time to Mesopotamia and cooking the oldest cuisine in the world! Even though these recipes are ...
In the early 20th century, architects turned to a newly discovered past to craft novel visions of the future: the ancient history of Mesopotamia. Eva Miller traces how both the mythology of Babel and ...
A carved panel found at Nimrud depicts Assyrian soldiers swimming across a river and using inflatable goat skins as floaties.
Excavations on unpromising mounds in the Iraqi desert revealed Sumer’s earliest city. Surviving relics and a rebuilt temple have given experts more clues about the ancient metropolis of Eridu.
History | January 2022. At the Iraqi Site of Assur, Ancient History Stands at Risk of Destruction. In its time, the Assyrian capital faced waves of invasions and abandonment.
A Mesopotamian myth from nearly 4,000 years ago tells of a man who builds a boat to save the world from a divine flood, long ...
AnuZigguratUruk #WarkaIraq #WhiteTemple Explore Mesopotamia some 6000 years ago, where one of the cradles of civilization and ...
Apple strudel's genealogy traces back to Mesopotamian pastry traditions documented in Assyrian texts from the 8th century B.C ...
Archaeologists have uncovered evidence that ancient Romans consumed songbirds as everyday street food, challenging long-held beliefs that these delicacies were reserved for elite banquets ...
A Year in the Woods: Montalto through the Seasons by Paul Clements (Merrion Press,) The year 1992, the last days of summer, and Paul Clements and his wife move into a rented cottage in the woods ...
Ancient Mesopotamia. SUBSTACKS. Suggested Books. PARTNERS. Mycenaean Greece. 10 June, 2025 - 18:32 Gary Manners. New Discoveries Unearthed at ‘Homer’s School’ Ithaca. New archaeological research ...