Because of shifting storms and sweltering summers, Iran’s capital faces a future “Day Zero” when the taps run dry.

The Royal Tombs of Ur, discovered in the 1920s, contained some of the most elaborate burials in the ancient world. But who ...

The water crisis in Tehran reflects not only this summer’s extreme heat but also several consecutive years of reduced ...

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 ...

A list for history lovers, curious minds and anyone fascinated by lost empires, ancient power and the stories that still ...

A clay tablet with proto-cuneiform writing. Image credits: Jim Kuhn/Wikimedia Commons. Imagine a world without written records — no books, no laws, no way to document discoveries or communicate ideas ...

Türkiye’s ancient sites are not just relics of the past; they are a living bridge connecting humanity to its earliest understanding of the universe Eberhard Zangger, president of the Switzerland-based ...

Cuneiform writing from Sumer. Credit: Osama Shukir Muhammed Amin FRCP(Glasg) / CC BY-SA 4.0 / Wikimedia Commons The world’s first urban civilization may have owed its rise not only to rivers but also ...

More than five thousand years ago, in the fertile lowlands of southern Mesopotamia, the world’s first cities began to rise from the mud. Historians have long credited this explosion of ...

A new interdisciplinary study shows that the rise of the first urban civilization was not solely a product of human ingenuity, but a complex response to coastal dynamics and the predictable rhythms of ...

A new study suggests that the origins of Sumerian civilization were shaped not just by ingenuity but by the natural rhythms of rivers and tides at the head of the Persian Gulf. Credit: Shutterstock ...