When rolled on a moist clay tablet, these engravings left low-relief markings, signifying that the object's owner authorized ...

New research uncovers how ancient tides shaped the rise of Sumer. A newly released study questions established beliefs about ...

New research reveals Sumer’s cities may have risen with the tides, rewriting the origin story of the world’s first ...

A study reveals that Sumer, the cradle of civilization, rose because of natural tidal irrigation that shaped the world’s ...

New research shows that the rise of Sumer was deeply tied to the tidal and sedimentary dynamics of ancient Mesopotamia. Early ...

Iraq's ancient Mesopotamian sites face erosion from climate change, threatening cultural heritage and archaeological ...

A recent study is changing the understanding of how urbanization developed in ancient Mesopotamia. According to the analysis, the emergence of the Sumerian civilization was not only the result of ...

Archaeologist 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 ...

The Tentative Lists of States Parties are published by the World Heritage Centre at its website and/or in working documents in order to ensure transparency, access to information and to facilitate ...

Iraqi officials are sounding the alarm to save monuments of the cradle of civilisation, with thousands of years of history at ...