List of illustrations -- Note on the text -- Chronology -- Eridu -- Uruk -- Shuruppak -- Akkad -- Ur -- Nippur -- Sippar -- Ashur -- Nineveh -- Babylon -- Notes and ...

Roman, Egyptian, and Chinese civilizations had many different ingenious inventions. Chocolate was a big aphrodisiac for Mesoamerican civilizations and used for energy. The first earthquake detector is ...

(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 ...

The origins of writing in ancient Mesopotamia and beyond may rest on a group of cylindrical seals. A team of archeologists from the University of Bologna in Italy has identified a series of ...

Researchers have made another major stride in understanding humanity’s origins of writing. In Mesopotamia, the birthplace of ...

It took decades for archaeologists to realize this 3,500-year-old tablet depicts an ancient city at scale. But how did its ...

Foreword / Carl J. Schramm -- Preface: the entrepreneur in history / William J. Baumol -- Acknowledgments / William J. Baumol and Robert J. Strom -- Introduction: global enterprise and industrial ...

In the dusty city states of ancient Mesopotamia, long before the advent of written language, mysterious symbols etched into ...

Jennifer C. Ross, who specializes in the archaeology, culture and history of the Near East, particularly Mesopotamia, will discuss the invention of cuneiform, the world’s earliest writing system, and ...

The earliest form of the signature came from ancient Iraq in the form of cylinder seals. Mesopotamians, the ancient inhabitants of the land between the Euphrates and Tigris rivers, are credited for ...