Mesopotamia, the world's oldest civilisation, arose in ancient Iraq, pioneering writing, law, and science. Explore its ...

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Over 8,000 years ago, early farming communities in northern Mesopotamia were already thinking mathematically—long before ...

The Halafian culture of northern Mesopotamia arranged floral depictions on pottery with symmetry and numerical sequences, ...

Traces of opium found inside an ancient alabaster vase suggest drug use was common in ancient Egypt, not rare or accidental.

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Yale University researchers have found trace amounts of opium jars in an ancient Egyptian vessel, proving that opium use was widespread in the land of the pharaoh — including during the time of King ...

A 2,000-year-old palace in the Republic of Georgia and a 1,500-year-old church in Iraq suggest Zoroastrians coexisted with people of other religions.

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Prof Dr Faruk Kaya, of Agri Ibrahim Cecen University, said the pieces were found close to the alleged Ark outline at the ...

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Rising from the plains of southern Iraq, the Great Ziggurat of Ur was built around 2050 BCE as a sacred link between heaven and earth. Dedicated to the moon god Nanna, it stood at the heart of one of ...