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 ...

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

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 ...

Mesopotamia gave birth to a writing system that many scholars believe is the oldest in the world, dating back to more than 5,200 years ago. Written on clay tablets, this writing system is often ...

New data on people living in Mesopotamia in the Neolithic period shows how immigration caused the land to be genetically diverse, according to a recent study conducted by Turkish researchers. The ...

The idea of Mesopotamia has intoxicated the West for centuries. Alastair Sooke takes a look at a civilisation where much of modern culture took form. “Everybody has heard of the Hanging Gardens ...

Mesopotamia is widely believed to be the cradle of civilization, but a growing body of evidence suggests that in addition to Mesopotamia, many civilized urban areas existed at the same time ...

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 ...

OUT OF MESOPOTAMIA By Salar Abdoh 237 pp. Akashic Books. $26.95. A version of this article appears in print on , Page 19 of the Sunday Book Review with the headline: The Battlefield Beckons.