The story of how the first cities rose from southern Mesopotamia has long fascinated scientists and historians. Many explanations point to fertile soil, farming, and trade networks as the engines of ...

The targets, in hindsight, were obvious choices. Amid a brutal campaign a decade ago to claim a caliphate across the lands of Mesopotamia, the insurgent group the Islamic State sought to control the ...

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Human Ecology, Vol. 46, No. 3, Thematic Cluster: Climate, Environment and Socio-cultural Resilience in the Late Roman, Byzantine and Ottoman Eastern Mediterranean (JUNE 2018), pp. 349-361 (13 pages) ...

In the podcast Totuuden liepeillä professors Arto Mustajoki and Saana Svärd discuss how we know what we know about ancient Mesopotamia – and what we can’t know. Assyriologists study the peoples, ...

A team of archaeologists from the University of Chicago's Oriental Institute has joined a team of Syrian colleagues in excavating a key site from the prehistoric society that formed the foundation of ...