Before the Library of Alexandria there was the Library of Ashurbanipal – an Assyrian king who collected the knowledge of ...

The irrigation network consists of over 200 primary canals, some of which stretch up to nine kilometers in length and are ...

Ancient stone tablets show government red tape goes back 4,000 years, say scientists - The administrative tablets give a rare ...

The spread of the cult of Marduk across Mesopotamia was proof of Babylon’s prestige. No ancient city was so desired and feared, so admired and denigrated. But in the Hebrew tradition ...

Our understanding of the irrigation and farming methods used in the ancient city has come mainly from ... the ancient landscape unlike elsewhere in Mesopotamia where older irrigation systems ...

Modern historiography has tended to assume that violence was the primary driving force behind the formation of the first ...

Researchers mapped over 4,000 canals in the Mesopotamian region around Eridu, history’s first city. The research team ... the canals were connected to the ancient Euphrates and linked more ...

The civilisation weakened when city rulers began fighting ... rivers met was called the Sumer. Ancient Sumer was in the southern part of a place called Mesopotamia. Most of the area now falls ...

In the heart of ancient Mesopotamia, a group of researchers has achieved a significant archaeological milestone: the ...

Archaeologists have discovered a massive and well-preserved network of ancient irrigation canals in southern Mesopotamia, ...

Researchers have uncovered a vast and well-preserved network of ancient irrigation canals in the Eridu region of southern ...