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

Northern Mesopotamia stands between the Euphrates and the Tigris rivers in what is now southeast Türkiye – the Turkish government changed the country’s spelling to Türkiye in 2021.

The origins of the signet ring can be traced back to Mesopotamia around 3,500BC, when they were used – often by illiterate businessmen – to authenticate documents and mark property.

Arslantepe is located on Turkey’s Maltya Plain far from lowland Mesopotamia’s urban centers. In addition to these luxury items, the tomb burial complex also contains evidence of human sacrifices.

Technology enabled the production of new shapes and “artifacts that have no analogy in nature.” ... But it was in southern Mesopotamia that money became formalized as a measure of valuation, ...

How Mesopotamia’s Urban and Industrial Revolution Started Politics as We Know It Today. ... Technology enabled the production of new shapes and “artifacts that have no analogy in nature.” ...

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 ...

This study compares Tepe Sagzabad vessels with similar artifacts, offering insights into the development of early distillation technology in the region. These findings highlight the complexity of ...

Technology; Health; Environment; Planet Earth / The Sciences. Mesopotamia Artifacts Help Explain How Language Evolved from Pictures to Words By comparing early markings used for business purposes to ...

Designs on stone cylinders dating back six thousand years correspond to some signs of the proto-cuneiform script that emerged in the city of Uruk, in southern Iraq, around 3350–3000 BCE.

The ancient world’s march toward urbanization was uneven. While Mesopotamia was sprouting city-states along the Tigris and Euphrates rivers and building massive monuments like the Ziggurat of Ur (in ...

The latest example of this trend is Turkey's new Mesopotamia Express, which opened in April 2024.Building on the popularity of the country's Eastern Express train, which launched in 2019, the new ...