Like his father, Iraqi buffalo herder Watheq Abbas grazes his animals in Iraq's southern wetlands, but with persistent ...

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

Ancient Egypt and Mesopotamia are home to some of the earliest examples of organized warfare, where empires rose through ...

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

How did ancient Sumer thrive? New research points to natural tidal irrigation! Tides brought water and nutrients to early farms, kickstarting cities. As the coast shifted, Sumerians adapted, building ...

A newly published study challenges long-held assumptions about the origins of urban civilization in ancient Mesopotamia, ...

A newly published study in PLOS ONE, Morphodynamic Foundations of Sumer,challenges long-held assumptions about the origins of urban civilization in ancient Mesopotamia, suggesting that the rise of ...

Alcohol has played an important social, political, and religious role in many societies, including ancient Mesopotamia, where people drank beer together from large vessels using long straws ...

Ancient DNA research reveals a genetic link between Egyptian and Mesopotamian cultures A well-preserved skeleton, dating to between 4,495 and 4,880 years ago, was analysed Four-fifths of the ...

Earlier archeological evidence has shown trade links between Egypt and Mesopotamia, as well as similarities in pottery-making techniques and pictorial writing systems. While resemblances in dental ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Ancient DNA has revealed a genetic link between the cultures of ancient Egypt and Mesopotamia, according to research published Wednesday in the journal Nature. Researchers ...