Newly analyzed 5,000-year-old clay bowls unearthed in Iraq may be evidence of early government-like rule, a new study finds.

Dr Evans, a senior lecturer in diaspora history, said antiquities from the British Museum showed how ancient civilizations in Mesopotamia, Egypt, Greece and India all adopted the gesture for ...

The origins of writing in Mesopotamia lie in the images imprinted by ancient cylinder seals on clay tablets and other artifacts. A research group from the University of Bologna has identified a series ...

THE thesis which it is proposed to outline here embodies the following propositions: (1) Available evidence points to Mesopotamia as the oldest known centre of scientific observation permanently ...

The origins of writing in Mesopotamia lie in the images imprinted ... "The invention of writing marks the transition between prehistory and history, and the findings of this study bridge this ...

Some of the symbols on these cylinder seals correspond to those used in proto-cuneiform, a form of proto-writing used in Mesopotamia. The finding indicates that the invention of writing in ...

At such a critical moment in US history, we need reporters on the ground ... paid for by those who can afford it. In Mesopotamia, the birthplace of civilization, the earliest known writing ...

This enthralling history of ancient Mesopotamia explores what unearthed clay and stone tablets tell us about the intimate lives of people who lived 4,000 years ago; from the imprint of a child’s ...