The Indus Valley Civilisation, also known as the "Harappan Civilisation," is the oldest civilisation found in India. However, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...