Rashid's must-read, millennia-spanning history, cleverly wrought from tablets written in the world's oldest script ...

The Bronze Age was a period of intensive contacts in the Levant, Egypt, Mesopotamia and southern Europe. It rapidly developed ...

Egyptian blue, also known as calcium copper silicate or cuprorivaite, was developed more than 4,000 years ago in Egypt and Mesopotamia.

The oldest known example of writing comes from Mesopotamia and dates to about 3300 BC. In time different-looking writing appeared in the river valleys of Egypt, the Indus Valley, China and Central ...

Known since at least the third millennium BCE in Egypt and Mesopotamia, Egyptian blue spread throughout the ancient Mediterranean and became an essential element in Roman pictorial decorations. It was ...