The artifacts were excavated from a city dating back to the third millennium B.C.E. by researchers from Iraq and the British ...

How Mesopotamia’s Urban and Industrial Revolution Started Politics as We Know It Today ... Since these innovations were shaped largely by relations with the temples and palaces, our group started by ...

Mesopotamia, between the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers, became the cradle of civilization due to its fertile land and the development of irrigation, which supported the growth of city-states like Ur ...

An Honorary Fellow at Oxford University's Wolfson College, Moudhy has spent much of her career translating the stories of the ...

A symposium on Sumerian civilization and literature was recently held at Peking University, bringing together scholars and ...

Mesopotamia—“the land between two rivers ... of Nebuchadrezzar II’s palace was built over the ruins of Babylon, near Baghdad. Like many before him, Hussein shaped it in his own image ...

This led to another climatic change towards a more arid environment leading to the drying up of the ancient marshes and in turn to the decline of the great cities of southern Mesopotamia. Today the ...

Along the Euphrates river was Ancient Babylon, which sat at the heart of the Mesopotamian civilization around 2000 B.C. to 540 B.C., and the even more ancient city of Eridu, founded closer to the ...

artistic and political traditions that characterize Western civilization. These ideas emerged during antiquity from societies located primarily in the Eastern and Central Mediterranean, including ...

That enabled Mesopotamian rule to be personal and indeed ... In both cases, the palace and temples played a key role. A standardised measure of value was needed for the economy’s own industrial ...