Historian Selena Wisnom reveals how the ancient Assyrians of Mesopotamia used ‘godnapping’ as a devastating form of ...

A buggy hit a bump on Girdle Road in Mesopotamia, Ohio, causing its bolts to snap and resulting in the horse having to be put ...

A newly published study challenges long-held assumptions about the origins of urban civilization in ancient Mesopotamia, suggesting that the rise of Sumer was driven by the dynamic interplay of rivers ...

This article surveys the textual attestations of the cultic performer designated by the logogram GALA in Hittite texts. This logogram, which originated in Mesopotamia, was apparently used for the ...

A newly published study in PLOS ONE, Morphodynamic Foundations of Sumer,challenges long-held assumptions about the origins of urban civilization in ancient Mesopotamia, suggesting that the rise of ...

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The research shows Northern or Upper Mesopotamia was a place where different cultures mingled some 10,000 years ago. On Çayönü mound, they discovered a high genetic diversity among people who lived ...

Use of cylinder seals for millennia throughout Mesopotamia Cylinder seals were used for thousands of years across Mesopotamia. People would roll these seals over clay tablets to leave prints, often as ...