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

The findings indicate that the origins of the state and its institutions in Mesopotamia are, at least in part, in their ...

Scattered around the sites of ancient Mesopotamia are thousands of devices called cylinder seals. They are equal parts stamp, credit card, and jewelry. They were how people signed for things and ...

Ancient Mesopotamian bowls found in northern Iraq offer new insights into the collapse of one of the world’s first ...

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

Newly analyzed 5,000-year-old clay bowls unearthed in Iraq may be evidence of early government-like rule, a new study finds.

On Nov. 12, Trump announced that Elon Musk and former Republican presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy would head the Department of Government Efficiency, which is not an existing federal agency. The ...

A study published last year points to Mesopotamia around 4,500 years ago as one of the earliest known places where kissing was a “well-established practice”. Thousands of clay tablets ...

Reflections on the Harappan Civilisation’ over two years ago, author Devdutt Pattanaik decided to compile it this year. “I ...

Tech entrepreneurs Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy said Wednesday that their brand-new government efficiency panel will identify “thousands” of regulations for President-elect Trump to eliminate ...

Their reward? Being put in charge of the new Department of Government Efficiency. It only sounds like a Cabinet department. In reality, it’s a fancy name for yet another blue-ribbon commission ...