The finds, which also include dozens of clay sealings, contain details of a metric system used to measure resources, as well ...

A symposium on Sumerian civilization and literature was recently held at Peking University, bringing together scholars and ...

The finds, which also include dozens of clay sealings, contain details of a metric system used to measure resources, as well ...

The artifacts were excavated from a city dating back to the third millennium B.C.E. by researchers from Iraq and the British ...

More than 200 clay cuneiform tablets and 60 seals linked to the Ancient Mesopotamian government were discovered by archaeologists at the ancient Sumerian city Girsu or the present-day site Tello in ...

Archaeologists say they've found "the very first material evidence of the very first empire in the world" in 4,000-year-old ...

Red tape may feel like a modern-day frustration, but according to archaeologists, it's been a part of governance for millennia. Evidence from ancient Mesopotamia reveals that bureaucratic systems were ...

Sumerian rulers made sure that these strains ... The Mesopotamian State Solved the Debt Problem That Western Civilization Has Not Buccellati sees the transformation of production, economic control ...

For hundreds of years experts have been trying to find answers as to how the great Minoan civilization of Crete came to an ...

This text is adapted from Michael Hudson’s foreword to At the Origins of Politics by Giorgio Buccellati, and this excerpt was produced by Human ...

The ancient world was replete with a myriad of fascinating civilizations, many of which are no longer remembered.

It’s an intriguing title. The Book of Before & After sounds like a novel by Philip Pullman. In fact it is a translation of ...