Archaeological study at Tell Abraq uncovers long-distance trade links and foreign influence from Mesopotamia, Iran, and ...

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.

Across caves, jungles, and deserts, archaeologists are piecing together traces of societies that slipped from written history ...

The earliest form of the signature came from ancient Iraq in the form of cylinder seals. Mesopotamians, the ancient ...

Recent events in Iraq, Iran, and Turkey recall ancient and equally dramatic events in Babylon and Mesopotamia, whose lands these countries now occupy. A magnificent storyteller and a careful historian ...

Landscape, climate, population -- The beginnings of sedentary life (ca. 10,000-4000 BCE) -- The first urban society and the use of writing (ca. 4000-3200 BCE) -- City-states and the way toward the ...

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Whenever a new discovery is made, it adds new pages of history. Here are some of the oldest civilisations of the world. Recently, the Archaeological Survey of India discovered an ancient stone tool ...