Sumerian civilization appears to have evolved in Southern Mesopotamia around 4000 BC, while some historians place it as far ...

Researchers have discovered an extensive and remarkably well-preserved system of ancient irrigation canals in the Eridu ...

The Archimedes screw, an ancient Greek invention for lifting water. Learn about its origins, how it works, and its modern ...

Artificial intelligence (AI) is upending the world at a pace far exceeding the impact of the wheel’s invention in Mesopotamia ...

This Women's History Month, we're celebrating inventions made by women. Nancy Johnson created the first hand-cranked ice-cream maker in 1843. Famous American chef Julia Child developed a shark ...

the British Museum’s curator for ancient Mesopotamia and director of the Girsu Project, told The Observer. Lest we think that red tape was a modern invention, Rey highlighted the empire’s penchant for ...

When a vast library of texts amassed by Mesopotamian King Ashurbanipal was burned to the ground about 2700 years ago, the ...

A team of archaeologists in Iraq, led by Sebastian Rey, the British Museum’s curator of ancient Mesopotamia, has uncovered compelling evidence of the empire’s formidable bureaucracy.

Early accounts of levers are found in ancient Mesopotamia and Egypt ... litter and twigs in their natural habitat. Yet another “invention” that nature beat us to are hooks.

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