Archaeologists have uncovered a vast network of canals underneath the world’s oldest city in Mesopotamia, shedding more light ...

The findings, published in the journal iScience, shed light on how the inhabitants of Mesopotamia, now modern-day Iraq, understood and expressed emotions like happiness, anger, and love.

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.

Although Babylon declined after Hammurabi’s death, its importance as the capital of southern Mesopotamia, now known as Babylonia, would linger for millennia. Monumental FollySaddam Hussein’s ...