New findings at Kurd Qaburstan, including clay tablets and monumental ruins, reveal insights into Middle Bronze Age life and ...

While the drive-thru window might seem like a pretty modern culinary invention, its roots may actually reach back much, much further than you'd expect.

Mesopotamia, with its dense network of ancient cities in the fertile plains along the Tigris and Euphrates rivers near the Persian Gulf, is often regarded as the birthplace of urban civilization.

Now, a team from the University of Bologna in Italy has linked symbols on ancient Mesopotamian seals with an archaic visual communication system called proto-cuneiform; an art form which would in ...

Artefacts at Kurd Qaburstan are offering rare insights into Mesopotamian urban life and culture during the Middle Bronze Age ...

Mesopotamian writing and art also describe how beer was made ... A History of Beer in Ancient Mesopotamia," by Tate Paulette). Further blurring the lines between secular and religious beer ...

The Ancient Mesopotamian poem entitled the Epic of Gilgamesh ... of the concept of chimeras and regularly used them in everyday art, their understanding of the genetic mechanisms involved in ...