Recently, historian Dr. Esmé James shared what's essentially a 4,000-year-old text message from a teenager to his mother.

Alongside this, he brings in stories of individuals as well as places, including his own family ... bringing ancient Mesopotamia and its people to life. Through it, we encounter a world of ...

Giorgio Buccellati’s At the Origins of Politics takes readers to the early stages of a process that became the structure of ...

Hammurabi’s laws focused on the relations between the palatial sector and the family ... in Early Mesopotamia,” in Hudson, Michael and Levine, Baruch (eds.), Privatization in the Ancient ...

War can be understood as a modern, secular form of human sacrifice and a manifestation of sacrificial logic, particularly when viewed through the lens of ritual, symbolism and communal narratives.

Yet despite a wealth of data and new techniques including ancient DNA analysis ... starting in southern Mesopotamia around 3500 b.c., pigs found their niche. Yet their central role in the ...

The First Arabs: Merchants, Miners, and Navigators The earliest Arabs, Semitic peoples related to the Akkadians of Mesopotamia ... of the Ancient East Arabs were organized into family lineages ...

The concept of credit can be said to date back thousands of years ago to ancient Mesopotamia ... credit card is the best option for every family, every purchase or every budget.

With his human head sculptures, Shah has conferred Man with a lasting grandeur, inscribing them with the unity of human ...