Alcohol has been a part of human civilization for thousands of years, with evidence dating as far back as 7000–6600 […] ...

This photo provided by researchers shows rock-cut tombs in Nuwayrat, Egypt where a pottery vessel in which the remains of a ...

Forty years after the first effort to extract mummy DNA, researchers have finally generated a full genome sequence from an ...

WASHINGTON — Ancient DNA has revealed a genetic link between the cultures of ancient Egypt and Mesopotamia , according to ...

The discovery, first reported by the Observer earlier this week, was made last autumn at Tello in southern Iraq—the modern Arabic name for the ancient Sumerian city of Girsu—and includes more ...

4,000-Year-Old Clay Tablets Show Ancient Sumerians’ Obsession With Government Bureaucracy The artifacts were excavated from a city dating back to the third millennium B.C.E. by researchers from ...

Sumer was a civilization that arose in southern Mesopotamia and is said to have laid the foundations of Mesopotamian civilization. By around 3000 BCE, Uruk , a city near the mouth of the Euphrates ...

The area has been inhabited since 4800 B.C.E. when Mesopotamia was home to the Sumerians – one of the world’s first major civilizations. Decorative pottery (2024).