A DNA bone test on a man who lived 4,500 years ago in the Nile Valley has shed new light on the rise of the Ancient Egyptian civilisation. An analysis of his skeleton shows that a fifth of his DNA ...

This discovery supports long-suspected ties between Egypt and Mesopotamia, once inferred only from trade goods and shared pottery styles. The Nile, researchers say, likely acted as an “ancient ...

A radically expanded view of the origin of civilization, extending far beyond Mesopotamia is being proposed. Mesopotamia is widely believed to be the cradle of civilization, but a growing body of ...

Upper Mesopotamia was a region between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers in what is now Turkey and Iran. ... farming and language development across the Southern Arc. Aug 25, 2022.

Tracking Disease in Ancient Mesopotamia. News February 27, 2014 ... this correlates well with written sources of that time—it was a heyday of farming communities,” Soltysiak told ...

Kids in Mesopotamia played a lot of the games you might play at recess with your friends or at home with your siblings. They played games like spinning tops, jump ropes, hoops and board games.

His name meant “true king,” and Sargon of Akkad (unknown–2279 B.C.) took advantage of that presumed legitimacy to establish the world’s first empire around 2330 B.C. in Mesopotamia, the ...