Maritime historian Nick Collins argues that the Indian subcontinent, not Mesopotamia, is the cradle of civilisation. Citing ...

This historian said that once the Indus-Sarasvati cities were discovered they were found to be too sophisticated, too old and ...

The conventional narrative places Mesopotamia at the beginning of civilisation, followed by Egypt, Greece and Rome. India ...

Ancient DNA from China’s vast 4,000-year-old Shimao settlement is revealing how one of East Asia’s earliest complex societies was organized. Researchers found that its people were largely descended ...

This video explores the Ziggurat of Ur, Dhi Qar Governorate, Iraq, one of the best-preserved monuments of ancient Mesopotamia ...

The stele has since been moved to the Inspectorate’s headquarters to undergo initial restoration work so that it can be ...

Cylinder seals were far more than ancient signatures. They fused art, power, and belief into objects that revealed exactly ...

The same force that paved the way for the Greek Golden Age sowed the seeds of its political collapse: individualism.

A clay tablet, hidden away in museum archives for decades, has revealed a remarkable story of daily life in ancient ...

Go back 3,500 years to the heart of ancient Iran, as a powerful Elamite warrior king prepares for a battle. His wonderful ...

In 1922, a British archaeologist named Herbert Weld Blundell was excavating the ruins of Larsa, an ancient city in what is now southern Iraq. Digging through the dust of Mesopotamia, his team ...

Uruk, the world’s first metropolis and the birthplace of written language, was nourished by the Euphrates River, as was Babylon, ancient Mesopotamia’s grandest city. The fertile plain between the ...