Mesopotamians, the ancient inhabitants of the land between the Euphrates and Tigris rivers, are credited for many firsts in human history, including writing, urbanism and the state. Among these ...

Alcohol has been around for thousands of years. However, the style of fermentation has changed throughout the ages. These are the oldest alcohols in human history.

This Sunday, we will all dutifully set our clocks back one hour for daylight saving time. But why is our day divided into 24 hours, each hour divided into 60 ...

Archaeologists uncover a monumental 5,000-year-old building in Mesopotamia’s Kani Shaie, revealing Uruk’s cultural reach.

More than 3,000 years before the first hospital opened its doors, healers in the ancient world were already experimenting ...

New research reveals Sumer’s cities may have risen with the tides, rewriting the origin story of the world’s first ...

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 ...

Research shows that ancient tides shaped the rise of Sumer, the world’s first civilization. Shifting deltas and tidal rhythms ...

A recently published study in PLOS ONE is reshaping scientific understanding of the rise of urban civilization in ancient ...

New research shows that the rise of Sumer was deeply tied to the tidal and sedimentary dynamics of ancient Mesopotamia. Early ...