He pleases Shamash and will enrich his life. Buccellati rightly states that “We are the heirs of Mesopotamian perception and ...

Mesopotamia, with its dense network of ancient cities in the fertile plains along the Tigris and Euphrates rivers near the Persian Gulf, is often regarded as the birthplace of urban civilization.

The Magan civilisation, often associated with the region of modern-day Oman, played a significant role in the trade networks ...

The discovery that farming might not have been the catalyst for civilisation means we must completely rethink the timeline of ...

The decipherment of Mesopotamian cuneiform opened up an extraordinary intellectual and literary culture. The Linear Elamite texts do not approach the richness of the cuneiform records. There is ...

Modern historiography has tended to assume that violence was the primary driving force behind the formation of the first ...

Researchers have uncovered a vast and well-preserved network of ancient irrigation canals in the Eridu region of southern ...

Yet to historians and archaeologists, Babylon is a real bricks-and-mortar place at the center of the vibrant Mesopotamian culture that it dominated for so many centuries. The Amorites, including ...

They were the moral pillar of the state. The Mesopotamian State Solved the Debt Problem That Western Civilization Has Not Buccellati sees the transformation of production, economic control ...