Researchers sequenced whole genomes from the teeth of a remarkably well-preserved skeleton found in a sealed funeral pot in ...

Mesopotamia some 6000 years ago, one of the cradle of civilizations and the birthplace of the first writing system. In the ...

4,500-year-old DNA offers new clues about ancient human societies.

Forty years after the first effort to extract mummy DNA, researchers have finally generated a full genome sequence from an ...

This discovery supports long-suspected ties between Egypt and Mesopotamia, once inferred only from trade goods and shared ...

New research in northwest Saudi Arabia has identified the existence of a network of previously unknown walled oases.

Sophie Cunningham, the Indiana Fever guard, has been trending on social media for a couple of weeks now. It started last ...

The Sumerians were the people of southern Mesopotamia, with their civilization emerging around 3000 BC, and became regarded as one of the cradles of human civilization.

Marked with the administrative details of government, the tablets have illuminated the complicated bureaucracy of an ancient Mesopotamian civilization. The tablets were discovered in the Sumerian ...