In southern Iraq, archaeologists have excavated a remarkable collection of carved clay tablets—ancient records of Akkadia, the world’s oldest empire. Marked with the administrative details of ...

A symposium on Sumerian civilization and literature was recently held at Peking University, bringing together scholars and ...

Narrator: Hello, future people of the UK. Would you like to visit me at the dawn of civilisation in ancient Sumer? Well, to do that, you’ve got to travel back in time. Back before the Vikings ...

Mesopotamia, between the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers, became the cradle of civilization due to its fertile land and the development of irrigation, which supported the growth of city-states like Ur ...

The finds, which also include dozens of clay sealings, contain details of a metric system used to measure resources, as well ...

The Indus Valley Civilisation, also known as the "Harappan Civilisation," is the oldest civilisation found in India. However, can you imagine another civilisation that existed before the Indus ...