While the drive-thru window might seem like a pretty modern culinary invention, its roots may actually reach back much, much ...

While we may not have much information about some ancient civilizations, one thing food historians agree on is that the ...

Photograph by Werner Forman, GTRES This story appears in the January/February 2017 issue of National Geographic History magazine. Mesopotamia—“the land between two rivers”—gave birth to ...

What most history books fail to mention is that, like other governors of the City-State of Mesopotamia, Hammurabi proclaimed the official cancellation of citizens’ debts owed to the government, ...

“As such, the findings indicate the origins of the state and its institutions in Mesopotamia lie in part at least in their ability to provide food to members of a wider community,” the media ...

Dr Evans, a senior lecturer in diaspora history, said antiquities from the British Museum showed how ancient civilizations in Mesopotamia, Egypt, Greece and India all adopted the gesture for ...

The tradition of celebrating the New Year has evolved over millennia, from ancient Mesopotamia's Akitu festival to the modern ...

Authored by six USG faculty members with advance degrees in History, this textbook offers up-to-date original scholarship. It covers such cultures, states, and societies as Ancient Mesopotamia, ...

This enthralling history of ancient Mesopotamia explores what unearthed clay and stone tablets tell us about the intimate lives of people who lived 4,000 years ago; from the imprint of a child’s ...

The oldest known example of writing comes from Mesopotamia and dates to about ... that hard-working individuals throughout history have always wanted their glass of beer? Well, this most ancient ...

One was the Ubaid pottery imported from Mesopotamia and the second was a ... insights about the Arabian peninsula’s environmental history as well. Such organic traces have been found embedded ...