A recently discovered palace in modern-day Iraq dates back 4,500 years and is said to contain the key to understanding the ...

A Sumerian palace discovered in Iraq dates back 4,500 years and helps to understand one of the first civilizations in human ...

In a new study published in iScience, researchers catalogued words for body parts and emotions used by people who lived in Mesopotamia between 934 and 612 BCE, in what is now a region that ...

Around 2350 BCE, King Sargon of Mesopotamia wrote with pride that boats from Magan were docked in his capital ... Soon to be ...

No matter where you go today, most of us relate emotions like anger to very similar pieces of anatomy. Jump in your time machine and set the dial for ancient Mesopotamia; you might find people ...

Jump in your time machine and set the dial for ancient Mesopotamia; you might find people gesturing to very different parts of their body. According to a recent analysis of thousands of 10th to ...

Google’s quantum computing lab just achieved a major milestone. On Monday, the company revealed that its new quantum computing chip, Willow, is capable of performing a computing challenge in ...

These experiments charted a course for Yousif to explore the achievements and legacies of other prominent Mesopotamian women such as Enheduanna—history’s first recorded author, who the Morgan ...

But have these expressions remained consistent throughout history? A multidisciplinary research team explored this question by analyzing how ancient Mesopotamians, living in what is now modern-day ...

Modern and ancient Mesopotamian emotions reveal striking similarities but also major differences. Credit: Juha M. Lahnakoski et. al / CC BY 4.0 A groundbreaking study has revealed how emotions were ...

Around 9,000 to 7,000 years ago, Neolithic humans in Mesopotamia employed oval-shaped vessels called husking trays to bake dough. These vessels, made of coarse clay, are likely the oldest form of ...

Happiness 'lights up' similar areas on both modern and ancient body maps, with the exception of the liver, which was more significant for the ancient Mesopotamians. (Image: Modern/PNAS: Lauri ...