The artifacts were excavated from a city dating back to the third millennium B.C.E. by researchers from Iraq and the British ...

The finds, which also include dozens of clay sealings, contain details of a metric system used to measure resources, as well ...

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Tear bottles, believed to be a pre-Christian custom, were used to collect tears, particularly by women who lost their ...

History’s first city, at least according to the ancient text known as the Sumerian King List found on a clay tablet, was also ...

The head of the Iraqi State Board of Antiquities and Heritage revealed that 27,000 artifacts have been returned to the Iraqi National Museum.

Archaeologists have uncovered a vast network of canals underneath the world’s oldest city in Mesopotamia, shedding more light on the rise of farming in the region. Researchers, led by geoarchaeologist ...

But artifacts were traded among Indigenous communities ... But it was in southern Mesopotamia that money became formalized as a measure of valuation, simultaneously for domestic agrarian and ...

Archaeologists say they've found "the very first material evidence of the very first empire in the world" in 4,000-year-old ...

This text is adapted from Michael Hudson’s foreword to At the Origins of Politics by Giorgio Buccellati, and this excerpt was produced by Human ...

Archaeologists have uncovered a vast network of canals underneath the world’s oldest city in Mesopotamia, shedding more light on the rise of farming in the region. Researchers, led by ...