People in ancient Mesopotamia depended on rivers. But rivers sometime moved, imposing stress on communities. Research shows ...

The kaffiyeh is a square-shaped hand-woven checkered scarf with a wavy motif around the border– representing olive leaves—and ...

The Nabataeans were desert-dwelling nomads turned expert merchants ... mythological texts like the ones we have for Gilgamesh and Mesopotamia. We don’t have their mythology.” ...

local merchants controlled trade between the Mediterranean and Mesopotamia. (Read about out how Palmyra thrived in an infertile desert.) Male Agrippa’s gift to his city, the Temple of Baal ...

In Ancient Times: A History of the Early World, originally intended as a high school textbook, Breasted wrote: “The earliest home of men in this great arena of Western Asia is…a kind of cultivable ...

Conquered by the Assyrian King Shalmaneser V, they were exiled to upper Mesopotamia and Medes ... by way of the desert. They are in league with the Kofar-al-Turak, pagan tribesmen who worship ...

Raign, Kathryn R. 2019. Finding Our Missing Pieces—Women Technical Writers in Ancient Mesopotamia. Journal of Technical Writing and Communication, Vol. 49, Issue. 3 ...

As our pilot cut tight turns over a desert plateau in southern Peru ... much as the Nile Delta or the rivers of Mesopotamia did. "It was the perfect place for human settlement, because it had ...

Mesopotamia, the area bounded by the Tigris and Euphrates ... Elsewhere, much of the Middle East is desert traversed by caravan routes linking scattered oasis cities, much as is the case along the ...

After decades of inaccessibility due to unrest and wars, teams of archaeologists from around the globe return to the greatest sites in Mesopotamia in a bid to save what can still be saved.

Q: The Bible describes it as a glorious kingdom stretching from Egypt to Mesopotamia ... in Kuntillet Ajrud in the Sinai found a little desert fort of the same period, and lo and behold, we ...