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

Archaeologist and scholar Giorgio Buccellati’s book At the Origins of Politics describes how Mesopotamia’s urban revolution in the late fourth millennium BC shaped a new mentality. The ...

Marked with the administrative details of government, the tablets have ... the British Museum’s curator for ancient Mesopotamia, tells the Observer’s Dalya Alberge. The Girsu Project ...

Frahm explains that these texts played a crucial role in both the political and intellectual life in ancient Mesopotamia. “Assyrians and Babylonians had long omen series lining out, for instance, that ...

It’s tempting to think that Captain America’s 1992 journey back to Ancient Mesopotamia was a comment on the political context at the time, particularly the Gulf War. But Roy Thomas ...