Mesopotamia, situated between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers, is recognized as the earliest cradle of civilization due to ...

Hebrew University researchers uncovered 8,000-year-old pottery showing floral patterns built on precise geometric ...

A new study reveals that the Halafian culture of northern Mesopotamia (c. 6200–5500 BCE) produced the earliest systematic ...

New research reveals that humanity’s earliest botanical art on ancient pottery featured complex mathematical patterns and ...

The Indus Valley civilization, located in present-day Pakistan and India, went through four periods of intense drought, which ...

A new book argues that civilizations built on centralized wealth and power contain the seeds of their own destruction.

Traditional economic theory celebrates banks as intermediaries that mobilise savings and convert them into productive investments. Joseph Schumpeter, the great economist of innovation, described banks ...

New research suggests that climate change may have played a decisive role in the collapse of the long lost Indus Valley civilisation.

MARDIN, Türkiye, Dec. 8 (Xinhua) -- The southeastern Turkish province of Mardin is seeking closer cooperation with China in tourism and culture, its governor said, highlighting the region's security, ...

The Amazon is the most powerful river in the world. With an average discharge of over 209,000 m³/s, it pours 20% of all global freshwater into the ocean. Learn about its massive 6,400 km length and 7 ...

A new study published in the Journal of World Prehistory reveals that some of humanity's earliest artistic representations of ...