Archaeologists in Iraq have discovered the remains of a 5,000-year-old building that might have been used as a "cultic space" or temple for worship.

Archaeologists uncover a monumental 5,000-year-old building in Mesopotamia’s Kani Shaie, revealing Uruk’s cultural reach.

A monumental 5,000-year-old structure has been uncovered by archaeologists in northern Iraq. The excavation at Kani Shaie in ...

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 ...

“Through studies on the strata, we learned that the traces date back to the Uruk period in the fourth millennium B.C. The strata show that writing was being developed in Khuzestan at the same time as ...

A study reveals that Sumer, the cradle of civilization, rose because of natural tidal irrigation that shaped the world’s ...

The exhibition invites visitors to take a walk through the world’s first megacity. Not only was writing invited in Uruk over 5000 years ago; the basis for today’s urban living was also laid there.

Being paid in beer might be a dream for some people, but it was a reality for many workers in ancient times. And there's living proof that beer was an accepted pay for labor: A 5,000-year-old document ...

The world's oldest surviving work of literature begins and ends with a wall: the rampart of Uruk-the-Sheepfold, great city of ancient Mesopotamia. "View its parapet that none could copy!" reads Andrew ...

https://doi.org/10.2307/530641 • https://www.jstor.org/stable/530641 Copy URL Hacinebi Tepe, a small site along the Euphrates River in southern Turkey, has two ...