Mesopotamia, situated between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers, is recognized as the earliest cradle of civilization due to ...

Globalization, migration, climate change and war—nation states are currently under huge pressure on many fronts.

The Great Ziggurat of Ur dedicated to the Moon god. Ziggurats were massive structure typical for Mesopotamia. Sumerians believed that the gods lived in the temple at the top of the ziggurats. Woods ...

New research reveals why not just agriculture but also cereal grains were crucial to the formation of humanity’s first states ...

A new and spellbinding book tells the history of the very ancient past of Mesopotamia, the land between the rivers Euphrates and Tigris. Between Two Rivers by Moudhy Al-Rashid, a researcher at the ...

The cultivation of wheat, barley and maize, which are easily stored and taxed, seems to have led to the emergence of large ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Ancient DNA has revealed a genetic link between the cultures of ancient Egypt and Mesopotamia, according to research published Wednesday in the journal Nature. Researchers sequenced ...

Imagine a world without written records — no books, no laws, no way to document discoveries or communicate ideas across generations. Civilization would be trapped in a cycle of forgetfulness, with ...

Hungarian Journal of English and American Studies (HJEAS), Vol. 30, No. 2 (2024), pp. 280-293 (14 pages) An evolutionary framework of epistemology is presented where different paradigms offer ...

New findings add weight to the theory that nation states didn’t just spring up from any kind of farming – it had to be grain.