Reviewing the symbol’s history, the researchers note that the appearance of a goat-fish hybrid first occurs in Mesopotamian ...

THE Sumerians they were a sedentary population of the ancient world, lived in Mesopotamia (present-day Iraq) over the ...

Once the clay was dried or baked, these impressions were preserved. This writing system was first developed by the Sumerians, an ancient civilization that lived in cities in southern Mesopotamia from ...

Cuneiform was developed by the Sumerian civilization that lived in early cities in southern Mesopotamia from about 5500 to 2300 B.C., when it was succeeded by the Akkadian Empire, based in the ...

The Temple of Artemis at Ephesus, Türkiye is nothing more than ruins today. But in its heyday, it was one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World. The first Greek temple ever to be constructed ...

Archaeologists digging there in 1881 recovered a small stone monument inscribed with archaic Akkadian writing. The text says that King Manishtushu (r. ca. 2269–2255 B.C.) renovated the temple of ...