Tides, rivers, and shifting coasts shaped Sumer, the world’s first urban society - offering lessons for today’s climate ...

Learn how the first civilization in Mesopotamia depended on tides and how it responded when faced with a major environmental ...

They posited that human ingenuity alone couldn’t have produced the surplus needed to feed ancient city-states like Uruk, Ur, ...

People in ancient Mesopotamia depended on rivers. But rivers sometime moved, imposing stress on communities. Research shows how this led people to form the first organized governments.

A newly published study in PLOS ONE, Morphodynamic Foundations of Sumer,challenges long-held assumptions about the origins of urban civilization in ancient Mesopotamia, suggesting that the rise of ...

Assyriologist Al-Rashid debuts with an eclectic history of Mesopotamia framed around an ancient collection of artifacts widely considered to be the first museum. Located in a room in a palace in ...

How did ancient Sumer thrive? New research points to natural tidal irrigation! Tides brought water and nutrients to early ...

A 2,900-year-old carved panel from the ancient Assyrian city of Nimrud shows soldiers swimming across a river using ...

1. Mesopotamia (Modern-Day Iraq) Many scholars believe the Garden of Eden could be located in the region of Mesopotamia, particularly between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers.