Although the great ancient cities of Mesopotamia have attracted archaeological interest over centuries, they remain poorly understood. How were capitals conceptualised by the kings who established ...

See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. Archaeologists have uncovered evidence that at least 11 children and ...

Tree-ring dating and radiocarbon research has established an absolute timeline for the archaeological, historical and environmental record in Mesopotamia from the early second millennium B.C.

Researchers from the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona have revealed the latest archaeological discoveries on the origins and consolidation of the first farming societies in Upper Mesopotamia, in ...

A lesson focusing on archaeology and Mesopotamia. Activities include an introduction to archaeology, the challenges of archaeology and how we can use material objects found to learn about the past, ...

WARSAW, POLAND—How healthy were the people of ancient Mesopotamia? Arkadiusz Soltysiak of the University of Warsaw collected information from all 44 previously published reports on human remains from ...

Every application field has multiple uses for deep learning. It can assist with classifying items and text in the context of archaeology, identifying similarities, creating 3D models, and locating ...

Historians from two Israeli universities have employed the artificial intelligence technique to restore broken up words penned in the Akkadian language. Akkadian is an extinct language spoken in the ...

This 15 slide Year 7 History lesson sequence introduces students to the material and archaeological evidence of Mesopotamia. The resource helps students analyse artefacts, architecture, inscriptions, ...

The world's first urban state societies developed in Mesopotamia, modern-day Iraq, some 5,500 years ago. No other artifact type is more symbolic of this development than the so-called beveled rim bowl ...

Mesopotamia was a huge empire that spanned much of the Middle East, including modern day Iraq, Kuwait, eastern Syria, south eastern Turkey and bordering regions. A kingdom settled on fertile lands ...

Hattusa was the capital of the Hittite Empire, a Bronze Age superpower in central Anatolia that rivaled ancient Egypt and Mesopotamia. Archaeological excavations in modern-day Turkey have revealed ...