Unveiling the mysteries of early civilization, Mesopotamian clay provides valuable insights into the origins of chemistry.
By the Middle Bronze Age, evidence shows that cultures in the region often enjoyed one crop over the other. Widespread ...
Archaeologists traced the invention of the lock and key back to Mesopotamia around 4,000 BCE. The first wooden pin locks, later adopted in Egypt and Greece, reveal just how advanced early ...
A model of the ancient environment suggests a new theory about how some of the first cities in human history were built. The research, published in PLOS One, proposes that the beginnings of urban ...
WASHINGTON (AP) — Ancient DNA has revealed a genetic link between the cultures of ancient Egypt and Mesopotamia, according to research published Wednesday in the journal Nature. Researchers sequenced ...