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

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

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“Mesopotamia was an agricultural society that produced lots of foodstuffs and textiles in an area that had no resources in terms of metal and things used to make jewelry,” says archaeologist ...

Scattered around the sites of ancient Mesopotamia are thousands of devices called cylinder seals. They are equal parts stamp, credit card, and jewelry. They were how people signed for things and ...

Credit: Basur Höyük Excavation Project At the threshold of written history, when the first civilizations began to consolidate in Mesopotamia and Anatolia ... elaborate gold and silver jewelry, and ...

But what happened in Mesopotamia to prompt such revolutionary changes ... Some of these bodies were richly adorned with jewelry and markers of their status in life—laid out in elaborate tableaux with ...

Seven excavated sites have yielded stone tools, animal and human bones, jewelry, hearths, and burial practices that ... Sharjah shared similarities in material culture with Mesopotamia and the Indus ...