A study reveals that Sumer, the cradle of civilization, rose because of natural tidal irrigation that shaped the world’s ...

A recent study is changing the understanding of how urbanization developed in ancient Mesopotamia. According to the analysis, the emergence of the Sumerian civilization was not only the result of ...

Mesopotamians, the ancient inhabitants of the land between the Euphrates and Tigris rivers, are credited for many firsts in ...

New research reveals Sumer’s cities may have risen with the tides, rewriting the origin story of the world’s first ...

A recently published study in PLOS ONE is reshaping scientific understanding of the rise of urban civilization in ancient ...

Buried beneath the waters of Quintana Roo, Mexico lies a discovery that breaks the historical timeline wide open — a 12,500-year-old ochre mine carved into limestone by organized hands. These weren’t ...

The oldest religious text in the world date back thousands of years, though many religions were initially passed on through spoken word. These religious texts are some of the oldest in human history.

Climate change is significantly affecting ancient cities in southern Iraq, wiping away thousands of years of history.

Climate change and rising salinity threaten Iraq's ancient cities like Ur and Babylon, imperiling thousands of years of ...

Iraqi officials are sounding the alarm to save monuments of the cradle of civilisation, with thousands of years of history at ...