Irem Sumer and her four friends have spent two years working on "Match Valley." Now they've got millions of dollars in ...

Flower designs on 8,000-year-old Mesopotamian pots reveal a “mathematical knowledge” perhaps developed to share land and ...

Today, trans people face politicization of their lives and vilification from politicians, media and parts of broader society.

Chemical traces of opium found in an ancient Egyptian alabaster vase shows it had a widespread use. An ancient alabaster vase ...

Mesopotamia, situated between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers, is recognized as the earliest cradle of civilization due to its development of complex urban centers. This region fostered early farming, ...

Life is hard. Who was the first person to say these grim words? I was hoping AI would provide the answer but it spectacularly failed. If I were to guess, I would bet heavily on someone in the Sumerian ...

Stone tool analysis of sites in Southeast Asia provided evidence that the area was a technological leader in seafaring. Archaeology supports that 40,000 years ago, the people living in Southeast Asia ...

Cuneiform writing from Sumer. Credit: Osama Shukir Muhammed Amin FRCP(Glasg) / CC BY-SA 4.0 / Wikimedia Commons The world’s first urban civilization may have owed its rise not only to rivers but also ...

Baghdad (IraqiNews.com) – Climate change is significantly affecting ancient cities in southern Iraq, wiping away thousands of years of history. According to Reuters, Iraqi officials are voicing ...

A recent study is changing the understanding of how urbanization developed in ancient Mesopotamia. According to the analysis, the emergence of the Sumerian civilization was not only the result of ...