Researchers from University of Glasgow have found origins of early governing institutions in Mesopotamia, which were based on ...

After analyzing millions of words in ancient Akkadian, researchers believe ancient humans may have felt emotions in the ...

Dec. 18, 2023 — Ancient bricks inscribed with the names of Mesopotamian kings have yielded important insights into a mysterious anomaly in Earth's magnetic field 3,000 years ago, according to a ...

Excavations conducted at the ancient site of Shakhi Kora in northern ... in exchange for labor in a communal setting. Analysis of animal bones, along with lipid residue trapped in the ceramic ...

Modern and ancient Mesopotamian emotions reveal striking similarities but also major differences. Credit: Juha M. Lahnakoski et. al / CC BY 4.0 A groundbreaking study has revealed how emotions were ...

A multidisciplinary team of researchers studied a large body of texts to find out how people in the ancient Mesopotamian region (within modern day Iraq) experienced emotions in their bodies ...

In the ancient world, perhaps no animal was as intimidating on the battlefield as a fully armored battle elephant. These ...

The site was abandoned by the late fourth millennium B.C. without evidence of violence or environmental catastrophe, ...

Does your heart soar when you're happy? If you were living in ancient Mesopotamia, you might assign such joyful flights to the liver. Researchers have analysed Mesopotamian texts to see how they ...