On that cold, quiet morning of May 29, 1453, the jewel of the Eastern Roman Empire, girded by titanic Theodosian walls and the Bosphorus Strait, a bastion of Christianity in the East for more than a t ...

Cooking the World’s Oldest Recipe: Ancient Mesopotamian Lamb Stew Posted: May 2, 2025 | Last updated: May 2, 2025 Travel back nearly 4,000 years and bring history to life with a rich, savory ...

is located in Turkey’s southeastern Siirt province at the margins of the ancient region of Mesopotamia. Between roughly 3100 and 2800 B.C.E., communities began performing “conspicuous and ...

A team of archaeologists in Iraq, led by Sebastian Rey, the British Museum’s curator of ancient Mesopotamia, has uncovered compelling evidence of the empire’s formidable bureaucracy.

Scholarly and public fascination with the ancient culture of Mesopotamia had been steadily growing since the latter part of the 19th century. It was in December 1872 that an Assyriologist ...

How sexually liberated were the people of Ancient Mesopotamia? In what is modern day Iraq and dates back to around 3000 BC. The answer may surprise you, with gender fluidity and sexual diversity ...

A new and spellbinding book tells the history of the very ancient past of Mesopotamia, the land between the rivers Euphrates and Tigris. Between Two Rivers by Moudhy Al-Rashid, a researcher at the ...

Ancient Mesopotamian people experienced love in a rather similar way to people today. In Mesopotamia, love was particularly associated with the liver, heart and knees. Modern: PNAS / Lauri ...

A fascinating recent study reveals that people in ancient Mesopotamia experienced and conceptualized love and emotions in ways that, surprisingly, resonate with our modern understanding of these ...

In all great writings, such as literature and song lyrics, the writer often associates certain emotions with body parts. If a person sees a crush, they may feel ”butterflies in their stomach.” If a ...