Tides, rivers, and shifting coasts shaped Sumer, the world’s first urban society - offering lessons for today’s climate ...

They posited that human ingenuity alone couldn’t have produced the surplus needed to feed ancient city-states like Uruk, Ur, ...

Learn how the first civilization in Mesopotamia depended on tides and how it responded when faced with a major environmental ...

A newly published study challenges long-held assumptions about the origins of urban civilization in ancient Mesopotamia, ...

Earlier archeological evidence has shown trade links between Egypt and Mesopotamia, as well as similarities in pottery-making techniques and pictorial writing systems. While resemblances in dental ...