Over 5,000 years ago, in the scorching heart of ancient Mesopotamia, the city of Uruk rose to become the largest and most advanced settlement in the world. Home to nearly 80,000 people, it boasted ...

The history of our cities has been written in water. In Mesopotamia, Egypt and the Indus valley, the first urban settlements were built around irrigated farmland. Flooded terrace fields for rice, corn ...

Think about walking through ruins that have witnessed empires rise and fall, where kings once ruled and civilizations ...

A gigantic shadow rises, silent and flat, across the alluvial plain of southern present-day Iraq, barely fifteen kilometers from the Iranian border. For centuries, the outlines of a cyclopean wall, ...

In a study published in the journal Iraq, Dr. Troels Arbøll analyzed medical prescriptions from ancient Mesopotamia to ...

Unlike the Egyptian pyramids, ziggurats were not places of royal burials, but temples dedicated to the patron deity of a city ...

New analysis of ancient Mesopotamian medical prescriptions suggests that, in a small but striking set of cases, patients were instructed to seek out the sanctuary of a deity as part of their healing ...

By Mohammed Atti and Imad Creidi BASRA, Iraq, Jan 30 (Reuters) - In greenhouses and sterile laboratories west of Basra, Iraqi ...

Shortages of water and power as well as rising air pollution in Iran are at the centre of why citizens are telling their ...

Evaluate the effects of various soil moisture levels and row widths on growth and yield of full season and double cropped soybeans. Determine the optimal irrigation management strategy for full season ...

Humans have been consulting their zodiac signs for thousands of years, on subjects as life-changing as what job they should do, to the person they should marry. Even those who don’t believe in the ...