One of the students on the trip, Grace DeLee (MURP ‘24) said it was a valuable experience for her. DeLee, who now works for ...

NEOM, with the support of this group, has established a sophisticated design ecosystem with advanced and rigorous ...

Researchers found the trays reached a temperature high enough for baking and similar to temperatures reached using domed ...

Cities are undoubtedly at the core of our civilization, from the earliest traces of urban settlements built over 6,000 years ...

Archaeologist Hormuzd Rassam discovered the tablet in 1882 in Sippar, an ancient Babylonian city in present-day Iraq ... and the map itself seems to give an aerial view of Mesopotamia. On the tablet, ...

Did you know Damascus, Syria, has been home to people for about 3000 B.C.E.? Today, it has a population of around 2.6 million ...

What are the best city building games? There’s nothing more relaxing than sitting down for an afternoon of city building games. We’ve lost countless hours lining up buildings just how we like ...

It first appeared around 3350 to 3000 B.C. in the city of Uruk, in modern southern ... was one of the earliest cities to arise in Mesopotamia, and it served as a center of cultural influence ...

In Between Symbols and Language For this study, researchers started 6,000 years ago, in the Mesopotamian city of Uruk, which is located in what is now Iraq. Uruk was a major trade hub, reaching as far ...

This writing system was first developed by the Sumerians, an ancient civilization that lived in cities in southern Mesopotamia from about 5500 to 2300 B.C. Afterwards, the Akkadian Empire, based in ...

Mesopotamia, often known as the cradle of ... 3300 BCE in present-day Pakistan and northwest India that excelled in city planning and architecture. Cities of Harappa and Mohenjo-Daro had paved ...

On ancient cylinders, 6000 years old, researchers believed that they found a link between these ancient seals used in very ancient accounting and the “proto-cuneiform script” from the city of ...