Researchers have found dozens of ancient Mesopotamian clay bowls at an archaeological site in northern Iraq. These artifacts offer new insights into the collapse of one of the world’s earliest systems ...

Claudia Glatz [Opens in a new window], ...

The distinctive beveled-rim bowls found at Shakhi Kora are similar to those found at Uruk and other contemporary sites in the ...

One of those 'household' buildings features grander architectural elements such as pillars and drainage systems, revealing influence from southern Mesopotamia and its highly dominant Uruk IV culture.

Early on, the local farming communities followed their own traditions. Later, they adopted practices influenced by the city of Uruk, located over 220 miles to the south in Mesopotamia. NEW Excavations ...

Joshua K. Leon explores 6,000 years of urban networks and the politics that drove them, from Uruk in the fourth millennium BCE to Amsterdam's seventeenth-century 'golden age.' He provides a fresh, ...

However, Uruk was the world's only large city in the ... As life around ancient Mesopotamia became international, characters needed to express the nuances of spoken language rather than record ...

Uruk, one of the world’s first cities ... “As such, the findings indicate the origins of the state and its institutions in Mesopotamia lie in part at least in their ability to provide food ...

The archaeological cities of Uruk and Ur and the Tell Eridu archaeological site form part of the remains of the Sumerian cities and settlements that developed in southern Mesopotamia between the 4th ...