Learn how the first civilization in Mesopotamia depended on tides and how it responded when faced with a major environmental ...

Tides, rivers, and shifting coasts shaped Sumer, the world’s first urban society - offering lessons for today’s climate ...

A newly published study challenges long-held assumptions about the origins of urban civilization in ancient Mesopotamia, ...

In ancient times, Mesopotamia, meaning 'land between two rivers', was a vast region that lay between the Tigris and Euphrates river systems, and it is where civilization emerged over 7,000 years ago.

The emergence of large, organized armies marks one of the most significant shifts in the history of warfare, especially in ...

Archaeologists have made a startling discovery in Iraq with a potential to rewrite the known human history.Experts have found ...

A historical area of the Middle-East that spans most of what is now known as Iraq but also stretched to include parts of Syria and Turkey.