Recent archaeological discoveries have unveiled ruins believed to be part of a civilization dating back 20,000 years, ...

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

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

Archaeologists have made a startling discovery in Iraq with a potential to rewrite the known human history.Experts have found ...

Mesopotamia: Civilization Begins presents a rich panorama of ancient Mesopotamia's history, from its earliest prehistoric cultures to its conquest by Alexander the Great in 331 BCE.

In ancient times, Mesopotamia, meaning 'land between two rivers', was a vast region that lay between the Tigris and Euphrates river systems, and it is where civilization emerged over 7,000 years ago.

Babylon: Mesopotamia and the Birth of Civilization Paul Kriwaczek. St. Martin’s/Dunne, $27.99 (320p) ISBN 978-1-250-00007-1 ...

“Mesopotamia: Civilization Begins” features artworks on loan from Musée du Louvre, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Bibliothèque nationale de France, and Musée Auguste Grasset – Varzy. (Getty ...

The Getty Villa ends its yearlong pandemic closure on Wednesday. On view: “Mesopotamia: Civilization Begins,” which goes back to the beginning, sort of.

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 ...