These Trypillia mega-sites, dating back to 4000 BCE, now hold the distinction of being the world’s oldest known urban ...

People in ancient Mesopotamia depended on rivers. But rivers sometime moved, imposing stress on communities. Research shows ...

Recent discoveries in Ukraine reveal urban settlements dating back to 4000 BC, redefining our view on early civilization and ...

Northwest Africa played a role in spreading civilization west of Egypt into southern Europe.

This article is about the province in Roman antiquity until the time of Heraclius. For the later province (theme) during the middle Byzantine era, see Mesopotamia (theme). For other uses, see ...

In a recent publication by the Swiss Neue Zürcher Zeitung, researchers describe the astonishing remnants of what may have ...

A recent study of an ancient Mesopotamian sculpture using cutting-edge technology has provided information about the earliest ...

Researchers have now decoded a Babylonian tablet, which is thought to be the oldest map of the world. It was created between ...

This is her 12th novel and is already hitting bestseller lists. The title will resonate with New Zealanders, since, of late, ...

For more than a century, scholars have largely agreed that the oldest cities in the world were built in Mesopotamia, mostly in modern-day Iraq, starting in the 5th millennium B.C.E. These early cities ...

Lothal’s archaeological record indicates its settlements were rebuilt multiple times. Rao identified five distinct phases in ...