The area covered by Mesopotamia translates into present-day Iraq, and so the nearly 1,400 objects on display -- dating from 150,000 BC to AD 650 -- have taken on new significance since the war there.

In Greek, Mesopotamia means 'land between the rivers', and the term came to be applied to the land between the two great rivers, the Tigris and the Euphrates, which flow from eastern Turkey ...

Mesopotamia was one of the cradles of civilization 6000 years ago, located in the fertile valley between the rivers Tigris and Euphrates, it was the birthplace of current day society and the first ...

The exhibit allows for reflection across cultures and invokes uncanny similarities to our own present day lives. The objects on view reveal that in ancient Mesopotamia, parents had lullabies for ...

Trustees of the British Museum. A recently interpreted 4,500-year-old marble pillar from ancient Mesopotamia shows that even at the dawn of civilization, people were bickering about their borders.

Kids in Mesopotamia played a lot of the games you might play at recess with your friends or at home with your siblings. They played games like spinning tops, jump ropes, hoops and board games.

Oman corals suggest that a stronger winter shamal season caused the Akkadian Empire (Mesopotamia) collapse. Geology , 2019; DOI: 10.1130/G46604.1 Cite This Page : ...

The project Embodied Emotions: Ancient Mesopotamia and Today was granted funding by the Finnish Cultural Foundation in September 2022 and will run until 2026. It explores how emotions were embodied by ...

A team of researchers affiliated with multiple institutions in Turkey, working with one colleague from Austria and two from Sweden, has found evidence via genetic analysis of a blend of ...

By 2,400 BC, cuneiform had been adapted for writing Akkadian, and later was used for writing Assyrian and Babylonian; these are all Semitic languages, as are present-day Arabic and Hebrew.