Mesopotamia, situated between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers, is recognized as the earliest cradle of civilization due to ...
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, ...
St Cuthbert lived on the island of Lindisfarne on a diet of raw onions, and died in AD 687. Four centuries later his coffin ...
New research suggests that climate change may have played a decisive role in the collapse of the long lost Indus Valley civilisation.
A new scientific study suggests that the sudden collapse of the ancient Indus River Valley civilization, known for its ...
According to National Geographic, the map depicts distances between gates in the wall surrounding the Mesopotamian city of Nippur, but for decades experts questioned its accuracy. The locations of ...