2 Buccellati rightly states that “We are the heirs of Mesopotamian perception and political experience.” Modern civilization, however, has retrogressed from the Bronze Age Mesopotamian ...

Even so, “The Mesopotamian Riddle” is an engrossing ... $1 million to whoever can make sense of an unintelligible Bronze Age script used in the Indus Valley, in what is now Pakistan and ...

Nothing validates my parenting quite like discovering an ancient Mesopotamian teen’s clay tablet complaint ... Forget modern teenage sulking—this is psychological warfare from the Bronze Age. He even ...

A rchaeologist 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 ...

For hundreds of years experts have been trying to find answers as to how the great Minoan civilization of Crete came to an ...

Going big and going early leads to an uptick in public interest and in those necessary donations. Unfortunately, it also ...

From the Bronze Age (circa 3200–1300 BCE), they developed ... and counteroffensives devastates Anatolia, the Levant, and Mesopotamia. By 628, both superpowers are utterly exhausted, forced ...

Modern historiography has tended to assume that violence was the primary driving force behind the formation of the first ...

“We often imagine Mesopotamian foodways in the Bronze Age as having no pigs, but most meat eaten in the largest cities was pork,” Price says. “Big cities are fantastic places to raise pig ...