When rolled on a moist clay tablet, these engravings left low-relief markings, signifying that the object’s owner authorized ...

Back in the day, Ancient Mesopotamia was the place to be. Considering the geographical area of some of humanity’s most ...

Races for seats on the boards of trustees in Bristol and Mesopotamia, Lordstown Village Council and the Liberty Board of Education, as ...

Archaeologists have traced the earliest lock-and-key mechanism back to ancient Mesopotamia around 4,000 BCE. Made from wood ...

Archaeologists revealed how America's earliest civilization survived a deadly climate shift 4,200 years ago by relocating and ...

Climate change is not just a modern dilemma; it’s a force that has reshaped the trajectory of human history time and again.

The artist could paint his masterpiece without his patron impeding him, because his patron would be his pupil. What this ...

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

A planet is about to be destroyed by the collapse of a binary star system in Slow Gods, Claire North’s first venture into ...

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Mesopotamians, the ancient inhabitants of the land between the Euphrates and Tigris ...