Imagine standing on a vast land where the Tigris and Euphrates rivers define the boundaries. This is Mesopotamia, often ...

Photograph by Werner Forman, GTRES This story appears in the January/February 2017 issue of National Geographic History magazine. Mesopotamia—“the land between two rivers”—gave birth to ...

Despite the inevitable attrition of records, loss of written materials, and the looting of ancient ruins and graves, enough from this region has survived to develop a reasonably coherent history of ...

Perfume making dates back at least 3,000 years – to the time of Tapputi-belat-ekalle, who is considered the first chemist in ...

This chapter focuses on the earliest historical records documenting the rise of kingdoms in early Mesopotamia and their relationship with violence and warfare. It argues that a rhetoric of ...

The oldest known example of writing comes from Mesopotamia and dates to about ... that hard-working individuals throughout history have always wanted their glass of beer? Well, this most ancient ...

The concept of credit can be said to date back thousands of years ago to ancient Mesopotamia ... identify your creditworthiness based on your history of handling loans. This includes things ...

Fremont College. “History of Accounting.” Encyclopaedia Britannica. “Artha-shastra.” New World Encyclopedia. “Luca Pacioli.” Circulus. “1860–1880 History of Accounting.” ...

The trend is to recast ALL human history through factious and unapologetically biassed lenses. On one side, there is a new ...

According to officials, the launch of the Mesopotamia Express is part of a ... It's a perfect place to explore the breadth of Turkey's history, from the Unesco World Heritage site of Harput ...