A rchaeologist and scholar Giorgio Buccellati’s book At the Origins of Politics describes how Mesopotamia’s urban revolution in the late fourth millennium BC shaped a new mentality. The segmentation ...

Göbekli Tepe is located in Upper Mesopotamia, a region which saw the emergence of the most ancient farming communities in the world. Monumental structures, interpreted as monumental communal buildings ...

These discoveries have challenged long-held beliefs that the world’s oldest cities emerged in Mesopotamia ... to track the presence of underground structures by identifying differences in ...

Göbekli Tepe, believed to be the world's oldest known building!Since it is at least 11,500 years old, it predates famous ancient structures like Stonehenge and even the first known civilizations in ...

Mesopotamia has depended on the Euphrates River and its tributaries for crop irrigation. The ability to divert water from these rivers through canals was essential for the sustainability of urban ...

That enabled Mesopotamian rule to be personal and indeed ... of the transition from “nature” to man-made institutional structures suggests how land and credit relations evolved along similar ...