The artifacts were excavated from a city dating back to the third millennium B.C.E. by researchers from Iraq and the British ...

Red tape may feel like a modern-day frustration, but according to archaeologists, it's been a part of governance for ...

In the rolling countryside of Northeast Ohio, where Amish buggies clip-clop down country roads and cornfields stretch to the horizon, sits a red brick building that houses some of the most ...

Southeast Texas has a 20% chance of cloud cover along the coast to near Houston. But chances for cloud cover rise to up to 40 ...

Beneath the ruins of Eridu, archaeologists have uncovered an extensive ancient irrigation system that once sustained early ...

The study provided a clear picture of the well-planned ancient irrigation system that once flourished in the region.

Researchers have identified an extensive Mesopotamian canal network that supplied ancient farms in the Eridu region with ...

At Ancient Origins, we believe that one of the most important fields of knowledge we can pursue as human beings is our beginnings. And while some people may seem content with the story as it stands, ...

At Ancient Origins, we believe that one of the most important fields of knowledge we can pursue as human beings is our beginnings. And while some people may seem content with the story as it stands, ...

History’s first city, at least according to the ancient text known as the Sumerian King List found on a clay tablet, was also ...

This left the area dry and uninhabited, thus preserving the ancient landscape, unlike other parts of Mesopotamia where older irrigation systems were buried beneath newer canals or river sediments. By ...