Niğmet and Ali are both from the village of Tekelioğlu, which abutted the lake. Niğmet fished in its waters, she reminisces, ...

A study says the Ain Samiya goblet, found in 1970, depicts a moment of cosmic creation, challenging previous scholarly interpretations. It's the oldest-known cup of its kind.

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

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 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 nation states didn’t just spring up from any kind of farming – it had to be grain.

The cultivation of wheat, barley and maize, which are easily stored and taxed, seems to have led to the emergence of large ...

A 3,500-year-old clay tablet discovered over a century ago in Iraq has been revealed as one of humanity's earliest examples of urban planning. The ancient map of Nippur, etched into a hand-sized ...

For more than a century, the standard story has held that Sumerian cities rose only after powerful rulers dug vast canal networks between the Tigris and Euphrates. Those canals unlocked large-scale ...

(The Conversation) – It starts with a slight scratchiness at the back of your throat. Then, a sneeze. Then coughing, sniffling and full-on congestion, with or without fever, for a few insufferable ...