So ubiquitous to daily life was beer that, in the texts Sumerians left behind, one of the most-used cuneiform pictographs is the one that represents beer. Mesopotamian writing and art also ...

He maintains that Menes was at one and the same time the Sumerian emperor in Mesopotamia and the first dynastic king of Egypt, a crown-colony of his world-empire.

Pictograph Mountain is the large, colorful dome located in the southwestern portion of Snow Canyon State Park. As one of the dominant features in the park, this eye-catching peak seems like it ...

Geoff Keighey's non-E3 summer gaming event, the Summer Game Fest, is back for 2025. It will be held in Downtown Los Angeles from June 7th through the 9th. Summer Game Fest also coincides with the ...

This beer dates back to 3400 BCE. However, based on pictographs of Sumerians and other people in Mesopotamia, it appears that bears of all different colors and shades were commonly ingested.

In this short, the British Museum curator Sébastien Rey untangles an intricate archaeological puzzle some six millennia in the making. First, Rey introduces viewers to an excavation site of the ...

Clay tablets at Kurd Qaburstan reveal ancient Mesopotamian culture Artefacts hint at urban life in the Middle Bronze Age city Findings challenge perceptions of ...

The Aztecs used pictographs to record events, genealogies and religious rituals. The Codex Borbonicus is a prominent example, created by Aztec priests before the Spanish conquest, conveying ...

The oldest civilisation in the world is widely recognised as the Sumerian civilisation, which emerged in Mesopotamia, specifically in the region between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers ...

A significant portion of human development and history may be traced back to the ancient civilization of Mesopotamia, in and around present-day Iraq. The study of these new tablets could reveal ...

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Why did this happen? Trade was very important for the Indus civilisation. Their main trade partner was Mesopotamia, which was an advanced civilisation in the Middle East. Around the time the Indus ...