A study reveals that Sumer, the cradle of civilization, rose because of natural tidal irrigation that shaped the world’s ...
New research uncovers how ancient tides shaped the rise of Sumer. A newly released study questions established beliefs about ...
Research shows that ancient tides shaped the rise of Sumer, the world’s first civilization. Shifting deltas and tidal rhythms ...
Long before municipal water treatment plants and chlorination, ancient societies faced the same essential challenge we ...
New research shows that the rise of Sumer was deeply tied to the tidal and sedimentary dynamics of ancient Mesopotamia. Early ...
A monumental structure, whose foundations date back to the dawn of urbanization in the Fertile Crescent, has been unearthed ...
Catalog of an exhibition held at the J. Paul Getty Museum at the Getty Villa, Malibu, from March 18-July 27, 2020. Translated and adapted from L'histoire commence en Mésopotamie, which was published ...
Today, the land between the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers is a barren desert. But centuries ago, this area in modern-day Iraq and southern Syria was known as Mesopotamia, a fertile plain that served as ...