The artifacts were excavated from a city dating back to the third millennium B.C.E. by researchers from Iraq and the British ...

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 ...

Mesopotamia, with its dense network of ancient ... "The presence of writing, monumental architecture, and other administrative artifacts in the lower town palace further supports this ...

But artifacts were traded among Indigenous communities ... But it was in southern Mesopotamia that money became formalized as a measure of valuation, simultaneously for domestic agrarian and ...