In the mid-1960s, a Soviet military topographer was analyzing aerial photos of Ukraine when he came across some unusual ...
Photograph by Werner Forman, GTRES This story appears in the January/February 2017 issue of National Geographic History magazine. Mesopotamia—“the land between two rivers”—gave birth to ...
A significant portion of human development and history may be traced back to the ancient civilization of Mesopotamia, in and ...
Recent discoveries challenge ideas of a sharp divide between the haves and have-nots in ancient Mesopotamia, suggesting a ...
A fresh new history of ancient Mesopotamia and the birth of history.
VEX.2020.1.2) In Mesopotamia: Civilization Begins, the new exhibition at the Getty Villa, the Getty does indeed start at the very beginning. At a place in what we now call Iraq, between the Tigris ...
Artefacts at Kurd Qaburstan are offering rare insights into Mesopotamian urban life and culture during the Middle Bronze Age ...
Special, Documentary, History 52m 2024 French After decades of inaccessibility due to unrest and wars, teams of archaeologists from around the globe return to the greatest sites in Mesopotamia in ...