The world’s first known author is widely considered to be Enheduanna, a woman who lived in the 23rd century BCE in ancient ...

Around 4000 years ago, in the land between the rivers Tigris and Euphrates, Ancient Mesopotamia developed the first written language of the world. On view until June 2020, the “Ancient Mesopotamia ...

Archaeologists have uncovered evidence that at least 11 children and young people were killed as a result of ritualistic sacrifice between 3100 and 2800 B.C.E. Their research was published Wednesday ...

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A ground-penetrating eye in the sky has helped to rehydrate an ancient southern Mesopotamian city, tagging it as what amounted to a Venice of the Fertile Crescent. Identifying the watery nature of ...

After analyzing millions of words in ancient Akkadian, researchers believe ancient humans may have felt emotions in the different parts of the body compared to modern-day humans. In all great writings ...

Chair of Ancient Near Eastern Literatures, Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich Throughout the twentieth century, only the fragmentary version of the prologue of the epic was known. Generations of ...

Mesopotamian clay maps, dating back 5,000 years, provide a fascinating glimpse into the ancient world’s perception of geography, particularly its rivers. These clay tablets not only depict the ...

This article originally appeared in New Scientist. Stef Conner is a composer, performer, and musicologist with interests straddling classical and folk genres. She is working with a group that ...