When rolled on a moist clay tablet, these engravings left low-relief markings, signifying that the object’s owner authorized ...

Back in the day, Ancient Mesopotamia was the place to be. Considering the geographical area of some of humanity’s most ...

Archaeologists have traced the earliest lock-and-key mechanism back to ancient Mesopotamia around 4,000 BCE. Made from wood ...

Archaeologists revealed how America's earliest civilization survived a deadly climate shift 4,200 years ago by relocating and ...

Climate change is not just a modern dilemma; it’s a force that has reshaped the trajectory of human history time and again.

Tigris and Euphrates: After decades of planning, Turkiye initiated the massive Southeastern Anatolia Project, known as GAP, ...

Archaeologists uncover a monumental 5,000-year-old building in Mesopotamia’s Kani Shaie, revealing Uruk’s cultural reach.

A planet is about to be destroyed by the collapse of a binary star system in Slow Gods, Claire North’s first venture into ...

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Mesopotamians, the ancient inhabitants of the land between the Euphrates and Tigris ...

CHRISTIANITY today is the world’s largest faith — embraced by more than 2 billion people. From open democracies to closed regimes, every continent has been touched by its influence. Yet Christianity ...