Excavations show Christians and Zoroastrians coexisted in 5th-century Mesopotamia, revealed through early architecture at ...

A newly spotlighted artifact from ancient Mesopotamia is offering a rare window into how one of the world’s earliest civilizations imagined the Earth. Known as the Imago Mundi, this Babylonian world ...

The fear of vampires did not begin with Dracula. Several thousand years ago, the ancient Mesopotamians had already recorded ...

The Akkadian Empire (ca. 2340–2198 b.c.) represented something entirely new in human history: a dynasty that conquered and ruled over a vast territory, incorporating people of different ethnicities ...

The world’s first known lock-and-key system, dating back to 4000 BCE in Mesopotamia, shows how ancient people protected their ...

Ancient Mesopotamian scribes solved the world’s first recorded algebraic equation on clay tablets. Their methods laid the foundation for symbolic mathematics and influenced many modern sciences.

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 ...

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New research shows that the rise of Sumer was deeply tied to the tidal and sedimentary dynamics of ancient Mesopotamia. Early communities harnessed predictable tides for irrigation, but when deltas ...