Sophie Cunningham, the Indiana Fever guard, has been trending on social media for a couple of weeks now. It started last ...

WASHINGTON -- Ancient DNA has revealed a genetic link between the cultures of ancient Egypt and Mesopotamia, according to ...

In Mesopotamia. Around 3200 BCE, the Sumerians, who lived in southern Mesopotamia, developed cuneiform. This was a system of writing that used wedge-shaped marks on clay tablets.

On the north end of Bahrein Island is a ruined Portuguese fort and near it a mound 40 ft. high, 2,400 ft. long and 1,200 ft. wide. Dr. Glob (who, says Bibby, has “a fine eye for country ...

In fact, long before the Ancient Greeks built their citadels and set out on heroic expeditions across the Mediterranean, long before the glory of the pharaohs, the region of Mesopotamia, between the ...

The royal tombs of Ur revealed Mesopotamia's golden splendor. ... The tombs were the work of the ancient culture of Sumer that had flourished at the dawn of civilization.

Mesopotamia and Babylon are often confused. ... In about 4000 B.C. the Sumerians were the first known civilization to arise in the region, and are named after the ancient city of Sumer, ...

Sumer was a civilization that arose in southern Mesopotamia and is said to have laid the foundations of Mesopotamian civilization. By around 3000 BCE, Uruk , a city near the mouth of the Euphrates ...

The oldest civilisation in the world is widely recognised as the Sumerian civilisation, which emerged in Mesopotamia, ...

These two primeval cities were part of Mesopotamia (now Iraq) and home to the Sumerians, who are thought to have been some of the first people to make things like the wheel, the chariot, writing ...

THE great and inventive people who settled 5,500 years ago in Mesopotamia, the land between the rivers Tigris and Euphrates (now part of Iraq), founded one of the world's first major ...