It’s quite complex, so it takes a scribe like me to do it. The ancient Egyptians were experts at farming and construction because they were very inventive. They invented a solar calendar (a ...

"Based on the evidence at hand, it seems most likely that writing was born in Mesopotamia," Goldwasser wrote in a chapter of the book "Pharaoh's Land and Beyond: Ancient Egypt and Its Neighbors ...

Is the longest-lasting civilization China, ancient Egypt or Mesopotamia? Here's a look at the evidence for each of these enduring cultures. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn ...

Across the Levant in the 15th century B.C., cities were rising up against freshly-installed pharaoh Thutmose III. It would be ...

Ancient Mesopotamia soon followed suit. The practice persisted for millennia, continuing after the fall of ancient Egypt in the first ... under CC BY 2.0 “The introduction of coins as currency ...

A Chinese researcher has been ridiculed after claiming his country "created" the Egyptian civilisation though all evidence points to Egypt being a unified culture around 1000 years earlier.

Idealism, a hunger for power and a wish to prosper have driven some of the earliest efforts to build a world order.

Did that mean the knowledge originated in Mesopotamia and spread to Egypt? Investigating further, I learned that ancient Egyptians must have discovered celestial iron independently, more than ...

The dyes indigo and safflower were used in ancient Egypt, and in Mesopotamia there were the beginnings of the petroleum industry, with extensive use of bitumen for cement and asphalt.

At the same time, research on the astronomical knowledge of the ancient Egyptians has shown that its basis of exact and scientific observation has, if anything, been overrated. At the recent ...

The professor added that there also is no basis for seeking Egyptian influence in the development of Levantine fortification strategies during the Middle Bronze Age, Middle Kingdom fortresses in Upper ...