Learn how the first civilization in Mesopotamia depended on tides and how it responded when faced with a major environmental ...

Tides, rivers, and shifting coasts shaped Sumer, the world’s first urban society - offering lessons for today’s climate ...

Step back in time to explore one of the world’s earliest and most influential civilizations: Ancient Mesopotamia. What was ...

Historian Selena Wisnom explores how Ashurbanipal, the last great ruler of Assyria, combined calculated brutality with an ...

The origins of writing in ancient Mesopotamia and beyond may rest on a group of cylindrical seals. A team of archeologists from the University of Bologna in Italy has identified a series of ...

Historian Selena Wisnom reveals how the ancient Assyrians of Mesopotamia used ‘godnapping’ as a devastating form of ...

Researchers have used bricks baked in ancient Mesopotamia to prove an unexplained spike in the intensity of the Earth's magnetic field.