agricultural communities in the Fertile Crescent region of the Middle East (Mesopotamia) developed a culinary culture. Researchers were intrigued by thick clay ceramic trays with an oval base and ...

Excavations conducted at the ancient site of Shakhi Kora in northern ... indicate the origins of the state and its institutions in Mesopotamia lie in part at least in their ability to provide ...

THE thesis which it is proposed to outline here embodies the following propositions: (1) Available evidence points to Mesopotamia as the oldest known centre of scientific observation permanently ...

A newfound clay head from the sixth millennium B.C. is the first of its kind ever found in Kuwait, but similar finds have been unearthed from ancient Mesopotamia. Archaeologists in Kuwait have ...

Assyria was a major civilization of ancient Mesopotamia—a historic region centered on modern-day Iraq. During this year's excavations, archaeologists unearthed two previously unknown shrines ...

Reflections on the outlandish - it is strategically wise to consider now how one handles the disintegration of Syria. Opinion.

The year's most exciting discoveries included musket balls fired in the early days of the American Revolution, a lost composition by Mozart and a medieval chess piece Meilan Solly The monument was ...