The irrigation network consists of over 200 primary canals, some of which stretch up to nine kilometers in length and are ...

Credit: Discovering Mesopotamia. Archaeologist and scholar Giorgio Buccellati ... would become a decade-long series of ...

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 ...

Lyuba Basin oversees the Rare Books section at the Marriott Library, inspiring others with cultural and historical works.

Researchers have uncovered a vast and well-preserved network of ancient irrigation canals in the Eridu region of southern ...

Well, it’ll be history. The civilisation weakened when city rulers began fighting with each other. Flooding meant that crops weren't growing as well. Cities began to struggle. In the end, Sumer ...

Sebastien Rey highlighted that, as with many mudbrick structures of Mesopotamia, the palace of Girsu was rebuilt or wholly reconstructed several times throughout its history. This pattern of ...

Archaeologists have uncovered an extensive irrigation system, including canals and farms, near Sumerian Eridu, an ancient Mesopotamian city long believed to be the oldest in history. The discovery ...

Sumerian was a non-Semitic language which is ... Most of the content on A History of the World is created by the contributors, who are the museums and members of the public. The views expressed ...