In southern Iraq, archaeologists have excavated a remarkable collection of carved clay tablets—ancient records of Akkadia, ...

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 ...

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

A symposium on Sumerian civilization and literature was recently held at Peking University, bringing together scholars and ...

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

Which factor led to the development of civilizations in ancient Mesopotamia? Ancient Mesopotamia was characterized by the Tigris and Euphrates rivers, several of which provided much-needed irrigation ...

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

Mesopotamia, a region that includes all of modern-day Iraq ... Far from a monolithic region, the Fertile Crescent was home to many ancient civilizations including Sumer, Akkad, Assyria and Babylonia.

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 ...