When a vast library of texts amassed by Mesopotamian King Ashurbanipal was burned to the ground about 2700 years ago, the ...

The artifacts were excavated from a city dating back to the third millennium B.C.E. by researchers from Iraq and the British ...

The study provided a clear picture of the well-planned ancient irrigation system that once flourished in the region.

Archaeologists have discovered a massive and well-preserved network of ancient irrigation canals in southern Mesopotamia, ...

Modern historiography has tended to assume that violence was the primary driving force behind the formation of the first ...

Researchers have identified an extensive Mesopotamian canal network that supplied ancient farms in the Eridu region with ...

They were the moral pillar of the state. The Mesopotamian State Solved the Debt Problem That Western Civilization Has Not Buccellati sees the transformation of production, economic control ...

Researchers have uncovered a vast and well-preserved network of ancient irrigation canals in the Eridu region of southern ...

The decipherment of Mesopotamian cuneiform opened up an extraordinary intellectual and literary culture. The Linear Elamite texts do not approach the richness of the cuneiform records. There is ...

Yet to historians and archaeologists, Babylon is a real bricks-and-mortar place at the center of the vibrant Mesopotamian culture that it dominated for so many centuries. The Amorites, including ...