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

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

Set up in 1907, the College of Agriculture in Pune was one of India’s first five agricultural colleges. Between 1916 and 1919 ...

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

It took decades for archaeologists to realize this 3,500-year-old tablet depicts an ancient city at scale. But how did its creators pull that off? Archaeologists from the University of Pennsylvania ...

ABSTRACT: Soil fertility is a determining factor for agricultural productivity and food security. This study aims to map the spatial variability of soil fertility parameters (nitrogen, pH, and carbon) ...

Serdar Yalçin does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that would benefit from this article, and has disclosed no relevant affiliations beyond ...

A fresh translation of a fragmentary Sumerian tablet has revealed one of the world's oldest surviving narratives featuring a cunning fox as an unlikely hero. The ancient clay tablet, designated Ni ...

Revolutionary new research challenges long-held assumptions about the origins of urban civilization in ancient Mesopotamia, revealing that tidal dynamics at the head of the Persian Gulf were ...

The Great Ziggurat of Ur dedicated to the Moon god. Ziggurats were massive structure typical for Mesopotamia. Sumerians believed that the gods lived in the temple at the top of the ziggurats. Woods ...

Long before Olympus, Asgard, or Eden, the gods of Mesopotamia and Egypt were carved into stone and etched into clay. While older myths may have echoed through oral tradition, these were the first to ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Ancient DNA has revealed a genetic link between the cultures of ancient Egypt and Mesopotamia, according to research published Wednesday in the journal Nature. Researchers sequenced ...