The discovery adds to a growing body of ancient art known in Southeast Asia that changes some long-standing ideas about when and where humans started showing our defining cognitive traits.

Cooking the World’s Oldest Recipe: Ancient Mesopotamian Lamb Stew Posted: May 2, 2025 | Last updated: May 2, 2025 Travel back nearly 4,000 years and bring history to life with a rich, savory ...

Between Two Rivers, by Oxford scholar Moudhy Al-Rashid, tells the story of ancient Mesopotamia, a period in world history sometimes known as a “forgotten age”. The world’s first known museum ...

is located in Turkey’s southeastern Siirt province at the margins of the ancient region of Mesopotamia. Between roughly 3100 and 2800 B.C.E., communities began performing “conspicuous and ...

Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent every weekday. Terms of Service and Privacy Policy. A roughly 4,800-year-old royal Mesopotamian cemetery in eastern ...

Among them was Nanni’s complaint. Dating from 1750 B.C., the palm-sized tablet is inscribed in Akkadian, the language spoken in ancient Mesopotamia at the time. Today, the tablet is part of the ...

A team of archaeologists in Iraq, led by Sebastian Rey, the British Museum’s curator of ancient ... Rey tells The Art Newspaper, was “an extremely important period in Mesopotamian history ...

By the 1850s, several scholars claimed to have decoded cuneiform, an ancient Mesopotamian script that had first been discovered several decades earlier. But, as Hammer explains, the public was ...

Featuring works from the collection of the Bowdoin College Museum of Art spanning nearly two thousand years —from approximately 1300 BCE to 400 CE—Flora et Fauna examines how ancient Mediterranean ...