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

The bowls, which were unearthed at an early archaeological site in Iraq, are thought to have held savory meals given in exchange for labor in ancient Mesopotamia. But the site was eventually ...

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 ...

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 ...

Ancient bricks inscribed with the names of Mesopotamian kings have yielded ... and can help better date artifacts that they previously couldn't. Co-author Professor Mark Altaweel (UCL Institute ...

the development of ancient Mesopotamia. In the territories anchored by the fertile land between the flood-prone Tigris and Euphrates rivers, the West’s earliest empires rose — states such as ...

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 ...