The Assyrian business community also had the first businesswomen and female investors. Generous tax breaks were given to ...

New findings add weight to the theory that states didn’t just spring up from any kind of farming – it had to be grain.

Have you ever wondered where the world’s first city was born? Archaeologists widely recognise a city that is located in ...

A small stone tablet pulled from the soil of western Georgia has opened a vast new mystery. Inscribed with dozens of unfamiliar symbols, the artifact appears to preserve a script that does not match ...

A sealed tomb, a skeleton in a pot, and a 4,500-year-old secret hidden in two teeth have just upended what we thought we knew ...

Way back in Mesopotamia, writing developed. Then Phoenicians made an alphabet. A couple of years later, Gutenberg invented a printing press, then some enlightenment produced libraries to let people ...

The earliest form of the signature came from ancient Iraq in the form of cylinder seals. Mesopotamians, the ancient ...

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Mesopotamians, the ancient inhabitants of the land between the Euphrates and Tigris ...

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Serdar Yalçin, Macalester College (THE CONVERSATION) The earliest form of the ...

The Sumerians were the first known people to settle in Mesopotamia over 7,000 years ago. Located in the southernmost part of Mesopotamia between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers (modern day Iraq), ...