Ruled by Hammurabi, restored by Nebuchadrezzar, conquered by Cyrus—this city in the heart of Mesopotamia was both desired and despised, placing it at the center stage of the dawn of history.

Ancient Mesopotamia was home to diverse peoples with different origins, cultures, and languages. But, over the course of two ...

Ancient Mesopotamians had a profound love of beer: a beverage they found celebratory, intoxicating and strangely erotic ...

Our Righteous Father Abramius, born in Edessa in Mesopotamia in 296, took up the monastic life and brought many pagans to Christ. Mary, his niece, upon the death of her parents, joined Abramius at his ...

The Ancient Mesopotamian poem entitled the Epic of Gilgamesh (ca. 27th century BC) 1 is famed as being the first corpus of epic literature known to man. It is also a source of much conjecture, for ...

Recent archaeological discoveries are leading to a radical revision by scholars of the intensity, scale and importance of ...

From Babel to Grand Designs, communication has been the make or break of projects for thousands of years. Will we ever master ...

What are the best god games on PC? Whether you’re a benevolent deity, carefully managing a virtual world so that everyone can live in comfort and harmony, or an agent of chaos who has gone mad ...

Archaeologist and historian Richard Miles explores the roots of civilisation in an epic series that runs from the creation of the first cities in Mesopotamia to the fall of the Roman Empire.

I play the regular charade of being a superstitious agnostic. God may be a […] ...

Every day, thousands of new parents leave the hospital with a little one in their arms for the very first time.

The technology of the Bronze Age seems primitive by today’s standards, which makes it incredible that Bronze Age people ...