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

New research reveals Sumer’s cities may have risen with the tides, rewriting the origin story of the world’s first ...

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New research shows that the rise of Sumer was deeply tied to the tidal and sedimentary dynamics of ancient Mesopotamia. Early ...

Excavations at a £1 billion housing development site at Cambridge University in England have revealed what archaeologists believe is Britain’s oldest-known Roman irrigation system. In addition to ...

An excavation in Turkey has yielded not just artifacts — it's yielded millennia-old recipes that are bringing the flavors of Ancient Rome back to life. Archaeologists in Turkey recently completed digs ...

Archaeologists have unearthed ancient carved Assyrian reliefs of a king in a procession of gods and goddesses riding on animals and mythical creatures. The Assyrian carvings are almost 3,000 years old ...

Ruins of the Palace of Artaxerxes I, Persepolis. Credit: Masoudkhalife / Wikimedia Commons / CC BY-SA 4.0 Land beneath one of Iran’s most treasured archaeological sites is sinking at an alarming rate, ...

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.)Ari Caramanica, Vanderbilt University(THE CONVERSATION) Seeing the north coast of Peru ...