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 ...
Archaeologists have uncovered an extensive irrigation system, including canals and farms, near Sumerian Eridu, an ancient Mesopotamian city long believed to be the oldest in history. The discovery ...
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 ...
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 ...
Modern historiography has tended to assume that violence was the primary driving force behind the formation of the first ...
Archaeologists have discovered a massive and well-preserved network of ancient irrigation canals in southern Mesopotamia, ...
In the heart of ancient Mesopotamia, a group of researchers has achieved a significant archaeological milestone: the ...
Researchers have uncovered a vast and well-preserved network of ancient irrigation canals in the Eridu region of southern ...