Hammurabi, the sixth king of the First Dynasty of Babylon, is not only remembered for his famous legal code but also for ...

What is the oldest gold artifact ever found, and was it part of a treasure hoard discovered in a cemetery in Bulgaria?

And trade has existed as long as we humans have formed civilised societies. In the 3rd millennium BC, the Sumerian city states in Mesopotamia (now Iraq) traded with the Harappan civilization of ...

This find adds to the growing body of evidence underlining sophisticated trade networks and economic practices of the time. Economically, Late Bronze Age Mesopotamia had strong trade networks that ...

The one-horned unicorn appears on the ancient Harappan civilisation’s seals and points to possible links between merchants ...

In East Africa a slave trade was well established before the ... soldiers in the Omani army and workers on the salt pans of Mesopotamia (modern Iraq). Many people were domestic slaves, working ...

TO-DAY everyone in the least interested in archæology has heard of the Sumerian culture of Mesopotamia and the cuneiform system of writing that was developed there. Not everyone realizes that ...

The ongoing 2024 excavation in Çanakkale reveals a historic cylinder seal, highlighting the deep trade connections between ...

Sumerian Six follows the Enigma Squad, a team of scientist commandos composed of the world’s greatest scientists who combine their skills to conduct secret missions in their fight against the ...

From the ancient Sumerian civilization to Ancient Egypt ... date to the 9th century BC when it was founded by the ...

What resulted was the Sumerian Game, an early video game that taught the basics of economic theory to sixth graders. In it, a student would act as the ruler of the Mesopotamian city-state of ...