Archaeological findings from the city-states that arose in ancient Mesopotamia offer sometimes surprisingly clear glimpses of ...

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

Ancient written languages emerged as a revolutionary development in human history, allowing civilizations to record important ...

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 ...