Thirty research papers by an international group of archaeologists redefine the cultural development of Northern Mesopotamia in the first half of the third mill

Between 1969 and 1980, Soviet archaeologists conducted excavations of Mesopotamian villages occupied from preagricultural times through the beginnings of early

Investigates how the structure and use of space developed and changed in cities, and examines the role of different societal groups in shaping urbanism.

Mesopotamia, in modern-day Iraq, was home to the remarkable ancient civilizations of Sumer, Akkad, Babylonia, and Assyria. From the rise of the first cities aro

The alluvial lowlands of the Tigris and Euphrates rivers in southern Mesopotamia are widely known as the “cradle of civilization,” owing to the scale of the