The texts contain cuneiform symbols, an early writing system, and show the red tape of government bureaucracy dates back over ...

Greg Jenner is joined in ancient Mesopotamia by Dr Moudhy Al-Rashid and comedian Phil Wang to learn about the history of cuneiform, the oldest writing system in the world.

A group of archaeologists has successfully deciphered a4,000-year-old collection of cuneiform tablets that reveal ominous ...

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For thousands of years, the divine feminine was worshipped across the world. Temples dedicated to goddesses stood tall, ...

From the carefully constructed streets of Indus Valley to Egypt's lofty pyramids, from the heavens' wisdom of the Maya to the written records of the Sumerians, the earliest civilisations set the stage ...

A history of the peasant way of life, a book from one of Italy’s foremost feminists, a study of ancient wisdom of Mesopotamia ...

War can be understood as a modern, secular form of human sacrifice and a manifestation of sacrificial logic, particularly when viewed through the lens of ritual, symbolism and communal narratives.

Researchers have identified an extensive Mesopotamian canal network that supplied ancient farms in the Eridu region with water from the Euphrates river before the first millennium B.C.

Deities often were trees ... But it was in southern Mesopotamia that money became formalized as a measure of valuation, simultaneously for domestic agrarian and industrial exchange—mainly ...

At first, like most students of the ancient near east, he wanted to work on Mesopotamia. The 2003 invasion of Iraq ... he was able to see the familiar names of gods and kings jumping out of the text.

A rchaeologist and scholar Giorgio Buccellati’s book At the Origins of Politics describes how Mesopotamia’s urban revolution in the late fourth millennium BC shaped a new mentality. The segmentation ...