Rivers are not fixed in place but rather tend to shift across the landscape. As they travel, they sow the seeds for diverse and productive ecosystems—forests, wetlands and floodplains—to emerge and ...

Hotter temperatures and a series of droughts in what is now Pakistan and India fragmented one of the world’s major early ...

Climate data offers clues to what might have happened to people of the Indus River Valley and how that might relate to our own warming world.

Assyriologist Al-Rashid debuts with an eclectic history of Mesopotamia framed around an ancient collection of artifacts widely considered to be the first museum. Located in a room in a palace in Ur ...

International team reconstructed region’s ancient climate using paleoclimate evidence from caves, lakes and climate models - ...

Excavations at the relatively small but strategically placed site of Hirbemerdon Tepe, located along the west bank of the upper Tigris River in modern southeastern Turkey, have yielded significant ...

Sumeria cuts right through the heart of modern-day Iraq, as far south as the Persian Gulf, where it connects to the Indian Ocean. It was one of the first regions where mankind's new itch to control ...

In Greek, Mesopotamia means 'land between the rivers', and the term came to be applied to the land between the two great rivers, the Tigris and the Euphrates, which flow from eastern Turkey, through ...

FOR anyone with an iota of classical education, the word Mesopotamia resounds with excitement―the mythical land “between the rivers”, the mighty Tigris and Euphrates. Branded as the cradle of ...