Mesopotamia Archive

Conny Waters  - AncientPages.com - Excavations at a 4th millennium B.C. settlement in Iraqi Kurdistan have provided groundbreaking insights into the origins of the world's earliest governing institutions.

Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Writing in Mesopotamia can be traced back to images created by ancient cylinder seals on clay tablets and other artifacts. A research team from

Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - During previous excavations, archaeologists have found plenty of evidence that Babylonians and Sumerians were skilled astronomers. Sumerian cuneiform tablets confirm that knowledge of

Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - The development of the earliest cities in Mesopotamia and the Middle East led to a substantial increase in violence between inhabitants. Laws, centralized

A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - Modern Tello (Telloh) was an ancient Sumerian city of Girsu, located between the Tigris and Euphrates and about 20-25 kilometers north-northwest of Lagash

Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Recent research has hypothesized that the earliest evidence of human lip kissing originated in a very specific geographical location in South Asia 3,500

A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - 'Lamashtu Plaque' (or 'Hell Plaque') was an Assyrian healing device against the female demon Lamashtu and her evil doings. Lamashtu plaque held by

AncientPages.com - Adapting to technological advances is a defining part of 21st-century life. But it’s not unique to us: it’s been part of the human story since our

Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Archaeologists have previously discovered that the ancient Mesopotamian city of Lagash, which flourished nearly 5,000 years ago between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers,

Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com -  Impressive drone footage has revealed an ancient Mesopotamian city known as Lagash challenges long-held ideas about the origin and development of the world’s

AncientPages.com - Sexuality was central to life in ancient Mesopotamia, an area of the Ancient Near East often described as the cradle of western civilisation roughly corresponding to modern-day Iraq,

Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - A team of German and Kurdish archaeologists has uncovered a 3,400-year-old Mittani Empire-era city once located on the Tigris River. The settlement emerged

Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Mesopotamia has long been regarded as the cradle of human civilization, and ruins of this important civilization are still being unearthed. Sumerians were

Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Rutgers researchers have unearthed the earliest definitive evidence of broomcorn millet (Panicum miliaceum) in ancient Iraq, challenging our understanding of humanity's earliest agricultural

A.  Sutherland  - AncientPages.com - Today, all we know about the ancient city of Ur comes from the written documents unearthed at Ur. The people of Mesopotamia, which

Ellen Lloyd - AncientPages.com - Mesopotamia is today widely accepted as the cradle of civilization, and there is scientific evidence ancient Sumerians changed the world in many ways.

Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - During the Bronze Age, Mesopotamia was witness to several climate crises. In the long run, these crises prompted the development of stable forms of

Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Though the exact number is unknown, authorities estimate tens or even hundreds of thousands of Sumerian artifacts have been stolen from Iraq’s museums

A.Sutherland  - AncientPages.com - In 2334 BC, Sargon became the first emperor in the history of the world. Most probably, his great Akkadian kingdom was not a new

A. Sutherland  - AncientPages.com - After many successful campaigns in the region of the Levant (of today’s Syria, Jordan, Lebanon, Israel, and Palestine), Nebuchadnezzar suffered a heavy defeat

Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - A decision to deliberately destroy a 12,000-year-old Mesopotamian city has sparked outrage and controversy. Hasankeyf, located on the banks of the Tigris River