Sumer, the site of the earliest known civilization, is in south-central Iraq between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers. While the culture that emerged between the sixth and fifth millennium BC was ...

Learn how the first civilization in Mesopotamia depended on tides and how it responded when faced with a major environmental ...

How did ancient Sumer thrive? New research points to natural tidal irrigation! Tides brought water and nutrients to early ...

A newly published study challenges long-held assumptions about the origins of urban civilization in ancient Mesopotamia, ...

A newly published study in PLOS ONE, Morphodynamic Foundations of Sumer,challenges long-held assumptions about the origins of urban civilization in ancient Mesopotamia, suggesting that the rise of ...

Read latest scientific findings on ancient DNA, including research on DNA preserved from early life forms and early humans.

Ancient Crater Lakes Rewrite Saharan Climate History, And Possibly Civilization’s Origins The findings suggest the Sahara had an extra source of rain that kept part of it habitable until ...

The mysterious Harappan civilization is considered the third oldest in the ancient East after that of Egypt and Mesopotamia.

At the top end of the Sacred Way, as it runs up from the Forum in Rome, stands the Arch dedicated to Titus, who in AD 70, as son of the new emperor Vespasian, brought the war with the Jewish rebels to ...

Prehistoric teeth and bones are providing new knowledge of present-day infectious diseases.