Mesopotamia, situated between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers, is recognized as the earliest cradle of civilization due to ...

A new study published in the Journal of World Prehistory reveals that some of humanity's earliest artistic representations of ...

JERUSALEM, Dec. 10 (Xinhua) -- Israeli researchers have revealed botanical art created over 8,000 years ago by early farming communities in northern Mesopotamia, which features distinct mathematical ...

A new study reveals that the Halafian culture of northern Mesopotamia (c. 6200–5500 BCE) produced the earliest systematic ...

New research reveals why not just agriculture but also cereal grains were crucial to the formation of humanity’s first states ...

New findings add weight to the theory that states didn’t just spring up from any kind of farming – it had to be grain.

The Indus Valley civilization, located in present-day Pakistan and India, went through four periods of intense drought, which ...

A new book argues that civilizations built on centralized wealth and power contain the seeds of their own destruction.

MARDIN, Türkiye, Dec. 8 (Xinhua) -- The southeastern Turkish province of Mardin is seeking closer cooperation with China in tourism and culture, its governor said, highlighting the region's security, ...

New research suggests that climate change may have played a decisive role in the collapse of the long lost Indus Valley civilisation.

The Amazon is the most powerful river in the world. With an average discharge of over 209,000 m³/s, it pours 20% of all global freshwater into the ocean. Learn about its massive 6,400 km length and 7 ...

New climate research suggests centuries-long river droughts weakened one of the world’s earliest urban societies — and offers ...