Pyramids are arguably some of the most impressive structures left behind by our ancient ancestors. Not only is it hard … ...

The Indus Valley Civilisation, also known as the "Harappan Civilisation," is the oldest civilisation found in India. However, can you imagine another civilisation that existed before the Indus Valley ...

He maintains that Menes was at one and the same time the Sumerian emperor in Mesopotamia and the first dynastic king of Egypt, a crown-colony of his world-empire.

Brutus magazine (Feb 1) celebrates the museum – and why not? A museum is itself a celebration – of art, of genius, of life, ...

The findings support the idea that the excavation site of Kurd Qaburstan is the ancient city of regional capital Qabra, but much of the city’s history remains hidden, aside from information ...

What are the best city building games? There’s nothing more relaxing than sitting down for an afternoon of city building games. We’ve lost countless hours lining up buildings just how we like ...

In this short, the British Museum curator Sébastien Rey untangles an intricate archaeological puzzle some six millennia in the making. First, Rey introduces viewers to an excavation site of the ...

may provide a wealth of knowledge about this Middle Bronze Age city and shed light on the more hidden history of Mesopotamia. The clay tablets are the first of their kind found in the region and ...

Leiden: PIHANS 108. Garfinkle, Steven J. 2008. “Was the Ur III State bureaucratic? Patrimonialism and Bureaucracy in the Ur III period”. In The growth of an Early State in Mesopotamia: Studies in Ur ...

3 In the paper Different Types of Egalitarian Societies and the Development of Inequality in Early Mesopotamia (2007), Marcella Frangipane argues that the commodification of foodstuffs, land, and ...