Tides, rivers, and shifting coasts shaped Sumer, the world’s first urban society - offering lessons for today’s climate ...

Learn how the first civilization in Mesopotamia depended on tides and how it responded when faced with a major environmental ...

The emergence of large, organized armies marks one of the most significant shifts in the history of warfare, especially in ...

A newly published study challenges long-held assumptions about the origins of urban civilization in ancient Mesopotamia, ...

Historian Selena Wisnom reveals how the ancient Assyrians of Mesopotamia used ‘godnapping’ as a devastating form of ...

Historian Selena Wisnom explores how Ashurbanipal, the last great ruler of Assyria, combined calculated brutality with an ...

Ancient Mesopotamian people experienced love in a rather similar way to people today. In Mesopotamia, love was particularly associated with the liver, heart and knees.

In ancient Mesopotamia (roughly modern Iraq), eclipses were in fact regarded as omens, as signs of things to come. For an eclipse to take place, three celestial bodies must find themselves in a ...

A newly published study in PLOS ONE, Morphodynamic Foundations of Sumer,challenges long-held assumptions about the origins of urban civilization in ancient Mesopotamia, suggesting that the rise of ...