Mesopotamia, a region that includes all of modern-day ... Far from a monolithic region, the Fertile Crescent was home to many ancient civilizations including Sumer, Akkad, Assyria and Babylonia. Its ...
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 ...
From ancient Mesopotamia to the modern world, astrology has left an indelible mark on human civilization. Ancient cultures ...
This book offers the first detailed comparative study of the seven most fully documented early civilizations: ancient Egypt and Mesopotamia, Shang China, the Aztecs and their neighbors, the Classic ...
In Mesopotamia, the birthplace of civilization, the earliest known writing ... Proto-cuneiform was an ancient Mesopotamia writing system that came at the end of the fourth millennium BC (Courtesy ...