Archaeologist and scholar Giorgio Buccellati’s book At the Origins of Politics describes how Mesopotamia’s urban revolution ...

Writing confers such power, that it inevitably became the subject of magic and myth. A later Mesopotamian epic poem gives us one version of how it all began: "Because the messenger's mouth was ...

You may have heard stories about sea serpents, whether from myths in ancient Greece and the Mediterranean, folklore from Germanic and Scandinavian cultures or tales from Mesopotamia. These stories ...