A fascinating recent study reveals that people in ancient Mesopotamia experienced and conceptualized love and emotions in ways that, surprisingly, resonate with our modern understanding of these ...

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But what if someone said that their “liver was full” or that they felt “anger in their feet?” Emotions and the body are nothing new, but they may have felt different for ancient humans like the ...

India’s National Maritime Heritage Complex (NMHC) in Lothal, Gujarat, is progressing as planned, with the first phase of the ...

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 ...

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

The lecture dealt mainly with the period 4000-1000 B.C., and showed how the outstanding achievements in applied ... namely Egypt, Mesopotamia and Crete. The working of metals appears before ...

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 ...

A multidisciplinary team of researchers studied a large body of texts to find out how people in the ancient Mesopotamian region (within modern day Iraq) experienced emotions in their bodies ...

The inhabitants of Mesopotamia must have known grief, fear, love and awe – but they didn’t necessarily think about them in the same way we do. An analysis of cuneiform texts shows that these ...

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 ...