Archaeologist and scholar Giorgio Buccellati’s book At the Origins of Politics describes how Mesopotamia’s urban revolution in the late fourth millennium BC shaped a new mentality. The segmentation ...

After the immense international success of "La Disparition de Josef Mengele", Olivier Guez returns with "Mesopotamia" – a novel about Gertrude Bell, a young lady from Victorian high society who became ...

When a vast library of texts amassed by Mesopotamian King Ashurbanipal was burned to the ground about 2700 years ago, the ...

Yet to historians and archaeologists, Babylon is a real bricks-and-mortar place at the center of the vibrant Mesopotamian culture that it dominated for so many centuries. The Amorites, including ...

The decipherment of Mesopotamian cuneiform opened up an extraordinary intellectual and literary culture. The Linear Elamite texts do not approach the richness of the cuneiform records. There is ...

A symposium on Sumerian civilization and literature was recently held at Peking University, bringing together scholars and ...

Even though the research subject is temporally distant, it has something of value for people today: Western civilisation, culture and many religions are largely based on Mesopotamian culture. Research ...