A new study explores how kissing evolved with the help of science, tracing it back to early grooming behaviors in ancient ...

A roughly 4,800-year-old royal Mesopotamian cemetery in eastern Turkey appears to complicate existing theories about how some ...

You see, the Sumerians of Mesopotamia invented beer, and they drank a lot of it. Historians believe that beer was available and consumed by everyone in ancient Mesopotamian society. It was likely ...

Sumerian civilization appears to have evolved in Southern Mesopotamia around 4000 BC, while some historians place it as far ...

Topline: There’s no denying that the federal government needs to sell many of its buildings. It would cost $370 billion to ...

Researchers have discovered an extensive and remarkably well-preserved system of ancient irrigation canals in the Eridu ...

Emerging from communities on the banks of the Tigris, in present-day Iraq, the Assyrians had conquered Babylon and Egypt and ruled in the Mesopotamian region from around 1300-600 B.C. At the dig ...

Writing and trade have an inseparable history. Some of the oldest surviving examples of written language are stocktakes and ...