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

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

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

A magnificent storyteller and a careful historian, Kriwaczek (Yiddish Civilization) brings to life the world of ancient Mesopotamia and the city of Babylon, tracing their rise from a loose ...

Object Details editor Thomas, Ariane 1983- Potts, Timothy F. issuing body J. Paul Getty Museum Subject Plastik Musée du Louvre Département des antiquités orientales Notes Catalog of an exhibition ...

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

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.

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 whole genomes ...

Or, at least, it has gone back to one beginning. Mesopotamia began to emerge in force around 3400 BC, but aboriginal civilization in Australia predates it by tens of thousands of years.

Mesopotamia, which lies between the Euphrates and Tigris Rivers in what is now Iraq (the name comes from the Greek for “between rivers”), was one of the birthplaces of civilization.

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.