The latest findings cast light on the history of a major civilization that is considered to be one of the world's first ...

Recent excavations at the Shakhi Kora settlement in Iraqi Kurdistan shed new light on the origins and rejection of early ...

Ancient Mesopotamia felt love in their livers and anger in their feet, revealed a recent analysis of one million words of the ...

Researchers from University of Glasgow have found origins of early governing institutions in Mesopotamia, which were based on ...

Newly analyzed 5,000-year-old clay bowls unearthed in Iraq may be evidence of early government-like rule, a new study finds.

The Kish tablet is “only” 5,500 years old, whereas the oldest cave painting that features three humans and a pig dates back ...

Jump in your time machine and set the dial for ancient Mesopotamia; you might find people gesturing to very different parts ...

Our Righteous Father Abramius, born in Edessa in Mesopotamia in 296, took up the monastic life and brought many pagans to Christ. Mary, his niece, upon the death of her parents, joined Abramius at his ...

A study published last year points to Mesopotamia around 4,500 years ago as one of the earliest known places where kissing was a “well-established practice”. Thousands of clay tablets ...

Focaccia has been a staple of Italian meals since at least ancient Rome, but new research indicates the flatbread’s origins date as far back as the Neolithic Era. According to some archeologists ...

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 ...

This 8th-century miniature, by the Spanish monk Beatus of Liébana, depicts the Bible story of Babylonian King Nebuchadrezzar eating grass as divine punishment. Photograph by Granger Collection ...