Mesopotamian scribes wrote about feeling anger in their feet and love in their liver. Learn about the similarities and ...

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

Step back in time to explore one of the world’s earliest and most influential civilizations: Ancient Mesopotamia. What was ...

Millennia ago, in the Fertile Crescent, the land nestled between the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers in what is now present-day Iran, the ancient Mesopotamian civilization of Sumer arose. Sumerians ...

The Sumerian King List begins with the very origin of kingship, which is seen as a divine institution: “the kingship had descended from heaven.” The rulers in the earliest dynasties are represented as ...

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

Historian Selena Wisnom reveals how the ancient Assyrians of Mesopotamia used ‘godnapping’ as a devastating form of ...

On view until June 2020, the “Ancient Mesopotamia Speaks” exhibit at the Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History showcases the relics of a civilization that was the birthplace of crucial aspects of the ...

Researchers have used bricks baked in ancient Mesopotamia to prove an unexplained spike in the intensity of the Earth's magnetic field.