The findings indicate that the origins of the state and its institutions in Mesopotamia are ... hierarchical forms of government were not inevitable in the development of early complex societies.

He maintains that Menes was at one and the same time the Sumerian emperor in Mesopotamia and the first dynastic king of Egypt, a crown-colony of his world-empire.

Westminster, 21 July 1916 - The British government has announced the establishment of two separate tribunals to investigate the military campaigns in Gallipoli and Mesopotamia. There has been ...