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 new and spellbinding book tells the history of the very ancient past of Mesopotamia, the land between the rivers Euphrates and Tigris. Between Two Rivers by Moudhy Al-Rashid, a researcher at the ...

Step back in time to explore one of the world’s earliest and most influential civilizations: Ancient Mesopotamia. What was ...

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

A range of social and cultural reactions accompanies the observation of an eclipse. In ancient Mesopotamia (roughly modern Iraq), eclipses were in fact regarded as omens, as signs of things to come.

WASHINGTON (AP) — Ancient DNA has revealed a genetic link between the cultures of ancient Egypt and Mesopotamia, according to research published Wednesday in the journal Nature.