The bowls, which were unearthed at an early archaeological site in Iraq, are thought to have held savory meals given in exchange for labor in ancient Mesopotamia. But the site was eventually ...

Marked with the administrative details of government, the tablets have illuminated the complicated bureaucracy of an ancient Mesopotamian civilization. The tablets were discovered in the Sumerian ...

Their revolutionary innovation, their irrigation system, was the seed of their civilization’s slow decline and eventual collapse. Over time, various empires emerged in Mesopotamia, each leaving ...