Researchers have finally decoded a Babylonian tablet thought to be the oldest map of the world. Created between 2,600 and 2,900 years ago, the Imago Mundi provided researchers with a unique ...

The paper, published in the University of Chicago’s Journal of Cuneiform Studies, says that the people of Babylon — an ...

Following the massacre of 2014, some 200,000 Yazidis still live in refugee camps in Kurdistan, unable to return to their ...

This is an in-depth treatment of the antecedents and first flourescence of early state and urban societies in lowland Mesopotamia over nearly three ... perspectives to enrich our understanding of the ...

A small but revolutionary group pursued a new idea: That civilization began in the ancient Middle East ... by Breasted and many other scholars of his era are still felt today. Mesopotamia, a region ...

What is the oldest gold artifact ever found, and was it part of a treasure hoard discovered in a cemetery in Bulgaria?

In ancient Mesopotamia, where they adhered to the laws ... the relationship between parents and children stands only when it is convenient and pleasant. When a conflict arises, the connection ...

Actively engaging with music helps children develop faster than just ... of infants now as it was for those 5,000 years ago in Ancient Mesopotamia. The science suggests that music of a slow ...

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The time is ripe to celebrate and pass on Assyrian cooking with "The Oldest Kitchen in the World," an essential addition to ...

Four-thousand-year-old texts reference meat stuffed into casings made from intestines, which is evidence of sausage-making in ancient Mesopotamia ... "most often associated with fatal outcomes" in ...

Following the massacre of 2014, some 200,000 Yazidis still live in refugee camps in Kurdistan, unable to return to their ...