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Brewed brilliance: the surprising role of beer in the rise of Sumerian society
The oldest reference in the first known writing — cuneiform — was not about gods or kings, but about beer. Lots of it. It was ...
Sacrificed teens discovered in ancient Mesopotamian burial site
A roughly 4,800-year-old royal Mesopotamian cemetery in eastern Turkey appears to complicate existing theories about how some ...
The delta dilemma: Crisis and the search for solutions
Deltas represent low-lying socio-environmental geographical regions characterized by the dynamic interaction between rivers, ...
Archaeologists perplexed to find Bronze Age burial of ritually sacrificed teens
The teenagers’ skeletons were unearthed at the cemetery of Basur Höyük where researchers previously uncovered evidence of ...
Ancient tombs in Anatolia suggest reverence for youth preceded elite burials
University College London, the University of Central Lancashire, Ege University, and other institutions have discovered that ...
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Mesopotamia. A Conversation with Olivier Guez.
After the immense international success of "La Disparition de Josef Mengele", Olivier Guez returns with "Mesopotamia" – a novel about Gertrude Bell, a young lady from Victorian high society who became ...
Archaeology breakthrough as 4,000-year-old finding gives bleak assessment on 'red tape'
The texts contain cuneiform symbols, an early writing system, and show the red tape of government bureaucracy dates back over ...
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Human sacrifices found in a Bronze Age tomb in Turkey were mostly teenage girls
Societies in Mesopotamia could have regularly switched between hierarchical, king-based rule and a more egalitarian social ...
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Archaeologists perplexed to find Bronze Age burial of ritually sacrificed teens
Previous studies have hinted that this period corresponded to the rise of kingship in ancient Mesopotamia as part ... the study suggests the early society switched routinely between egalitarian ...