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This 5,000-year-old tablet is believed to hold the world's first signature — and it's on a receipt for beer. Experts believe ...
which held the remains of two 12-year-olds from ancient Mesopotamia. | Credit: Photograph by permission of the BaÅŸur Höyük Research Project; Cambridge Archaeological Journal 2025 Five millennia ago, ...
Researchers have discovered an extensive and remarkably well-preserved system of ancient irrigation canals in the Eridu ...
Oxford historian, Dr Moudhy Al Rashid, on her book Between Two Rivers: Ancient Mesopotamia and the Birth of History ...
the British Museum’s curator for ancient Mesopotamia, tells the Observer’s Dalya Alberge. The Girsu Project researchers found more than 200 tablets and some 50 cylinder seal impressions of ...
Pearly whites are no longer in – but maybe they have not ever been. Ask Alligator Jesus, who makes custom dental accessories ...
A team of archaeologists in Iraq, led by Sebastian Rey, the British Museum’s curator of ancient Mesopotamia ... to light the achievements of the people of Mesopotamia thousands of years ago ...