While we may not have much information about some ancient civilizations, one thing food historians agree on is that the ...

New discoveries by a UCF researcher and her team at the ancient Mesopotamian site of Kurd Qaburstan, including clay tablets ...

Recent excavations at the Shakhi Kora settlement in Iraqi Kurdistan shed new light on the origins and rejection of early centralized governance in ancient Mesopotamia. The research results ...

As Mesopotamian society became more complex, writing allowed administrators to keep an account of who had been paid and what had been traded. The earliest cuneiform tablets are almost all records ...

For example, in the Mesopotamian city of Dilmun ... to grapple with current problems in the role of finance and financial regulation in a civilized society.­ ...

you create complex forms of society, and writing is essential for all of that." Writing seems to have emerged independently in Mesopotamia, Egypt, China and Central America - all of them expanding ...

Mesopotamia, with its dense network of ancient cities in the fertile plains along the Tigris and Euphrates rivers near the Persian Gulf, is often regarded as the birthplace of urban civilization.