The first ever recorded kiss happened 4,500 years ago, scientists have suggested, after discovering evidence which puts the ...

The earliest form of the signature came from ancient Iraq in the form of cylinder seals. Mesopotamians, the ancient ...

AN ADVANCED civilisation that ruled large swathes of the Middle East 4,000 years ago may have been wiped out by a spot of bad weather. The Akkadian Empire flourished during the Bronze Age and new ...

Rather than being a recent cultural development, kissing may have been practised by other early humans like Neanderthals and ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . The Archive for Oriental Studies publishes essays and reviews in the field of ancient Near Eastern philology (languages: Sumerian, Akkadian, Hittite, ...

Learn how the first civilization in Mesopotamia depended on tides and how it responded when faced with a major environmental challenge. Jack Knudson is an assistant editor for Discover Magazine who ...

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Mesopotamians, the ancient inhabitants of the land between the Euphrates and Tigris ...

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Serdar Yalçin, Macalester College (THE CONVERSATION) The earliest form of the ...