New Research Challenges Long-Held Assumptions About the Origins of Mesopotamian Civilization

New research uncovers how ancient tides shaped the rise of Sumer. A newly released study questions established beliefs about ...
Greek Reporter

Sumer, the Cradle of Civilization, May Have Risen Because of the Tides

A study reveals that Sumer, the cradle of civilization, rose because of natural tidal irrigation that shaped the world’s ...
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Ancient Mesopotamian Tides Sparked the Birth of Civilization, Study Finds

Research shows that ancient tides shaped the rise of Sumer, the world’s first civilization. Shifting deltas and tidal rhythms ...
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How Ancient Civilizations Managed Water

Long before municipal water treatment plants and chlorination, ancient societies faced the same essential challenge we ...
Science Daily

Ancient tides may have sparked humanity’s first urban civilization

New research shows that the rise of Sumer was deeply tied to the tidal and sedimentary dynamics of ancient Mesopotamia. Early ...
La Brújula Verde

Monumental Ritual Structure from the Beginnings of Mesopotamian Civilization Linked to Uruk Discovered in Northeastern Iraq

A monumental structure, whose foundations date back to the dawn of urbanization in the Fertile Crescent, has been unearthed ...
The Debrief

In Ancient Sumer, This Force of Nature May Have Propelled the First Urban Revolution, a Surprise Discovery Reveals

New research reveals Sumer’s cities may have risen with the tides, rewriting the origin story of the world’s first ...
La Brújula Verde

Tides Were Key to the Rise of the Sumerian Civilization, the First Urban Culture in History

A recently published study in PLOS ONE is reshaping scientific understanding of the rise of urban civilization in ancient ...
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Mesopotamia : civilization begins / edited by Ariane Thomas and Timothy Potts

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 ...