The world’s first known lock-and-key system, dating back to 4000 BCE in Mesopotamia, shows how ancient people protected their ...
Long before ancient Egypt or Mesopotamia, early humans were fermenting fruits and grains to create the world’s first ...
Ancient Sudan was connected, through trade and military activity, with Egypt, the Mediterranean world and Mesopotamia, and ...
A breakthrough study claims to have solved the centuries-old mystery of why the Indus Valley civilisation fell. The findings ...
Ca. 2300–2000 b.c. The head likely depicts a Mesopotamian ruler and is one of the earliest known life-size lost-wax metal sculptures to survive. It had been thought that the head was virtually solid, ...
Globalization, migration, climate change and war—nation states are currently under huge pressure on many fronts.