The artifacts were excavated from a city dating ... the tablets have illuminated the complicated bureaucracy of an ancient Mesopotamian civilization. The tablets were discovered in the Sumerian ...

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 ...

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

Tear bottles, believed to be a pre-Christian custom, were used to collect tears, particularly by women who lost their ...

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 ...

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Mesopotamia, and the Maya. That is largely because of the undeciphered script, which was found on artifacts such as pottery and stone seals. There are a few reasons it’s been so hard to decode.

But to art lovers, it’s simply the city of art — and there’s so much to see that it’s hard to know where to start. As the ...

The U.S. military did major damage to the site of one of the wonders of the ancient world while converting it into a base, the United Nations said in a new report. The site of the Hanging Gardens of ...

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