History’s first city, at least according to the ancient text known as the Sumerian King List found on a clay tablet, was also ...

The Imago Mundi, the oldest known world map, offers a rare glimpse into the ... an ancient city north of Babylon along the Euphrates River. Despite its age, this artifact preserves a sophisticated ...

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

Mesopotamians occupied this region along the vast Euphrates river from the sixth millennium B.C. (8,000 to 7,000 years ago) to the early first millennium B.C. (3,000 to 2,000 years ago).