Beneath the rugged mountains of southeastern Iran, archaeologists are carefully unearthing traces of a Bronze Age society ...

Around 2300 B.C.E., the Mesopotamian king Sargon—a native ... The site’s missing or decontextualized artifacts previously made for fuzzy conclusions about the Akkad government.

“We know quite a bit about Mesopotamian cities in the south ... and other administrative artifacts in the lower town palace further supports this identification since the site must have been ...

The figurine dates back to the Ubaid period of ancient Mesopotamia, which predated the Bronze Age. Archaeologists estimate that the artifact was crafted during the 6th millennium BCE, making it ...

In Between Symbols and Language For this study, researchers started 6,000 years ago, in the Mesopotamian city of Uruk, which is located in what is now Iraq. Uruk was a major trade hub, reaching as far ...

The origins of writing in ancient Mesopotamia and beyond may rest on a group of cylindrical seals. A team of archeologists from the University of Bologna in Italy has identified a series of ...

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Among the 478 artifacts found during the milestone ... were used by all members of society—regardless of rank—in ancient Mesopotamia as a method of proving ownership or signing ones name ...

opening up a new world of artifact dating. “We often depend on dating methods such as radiocarbon dates to get a sense of chronology in ancient Mesopotamia,” Mark Altaweel, co-author and ...

Before this new study, there was little precise archaeomagnetic evidence from Mesopotamian artifacts dating to this time. “The lack of data there really restricted our ability to understand the ...