A significant portion of human development and history may be traced back to the ancient civilization of Mesopotamia ... a newly discovered administrative complex identified as a lower town ...

For Michael Danti of the University of Pennsylvania, the two decades before the civil war in Syria were “a golden age” for ...

Babel, whose original derivation from the Hebrew name for Babylon dates even further back to Akkadian—an extinct East Semitic language spoken in ancient Mesopotamia—refers to the Akkadian name ...

Or for that matter, an institution, business and even governments ... between humans and money – from clay tablets in Mesopotamia to coins in Ancient Greece (the world’s first credit crisis ...

"We're preserving the coexistence and pluralism that was in Iraq," Benjamen said. Born and raised in Kirkuk, an oil-rich ...

noting it was a “complex operation”. His organization has been working closely with Iraqi archaeologists, supporting their drive to “save” Nimrud and preserve its cultural riches, through training ...

Researchers made the new discoveries during field work at the Bronze Age site of Kurd Qaburstan. The research provides insights into regional heritage and fills gaps in knowledge about how ancient ...

He maintains that Menes was at one and the same time the Sumerian emperor in Mesopotamia and the first dynastic king of Egypt, a crown-colony of his world-empire.

Flooding meant that crops weren't growing as well. Cities began to struggle. In the end, Sumer was invaded by the Elamites who came from modern-day Iran. Narrator: Hello, future people of the UK.