Archaeologists have uncovered a vast network of canals underneath the world’s oldest city in Mesopotamia, shedding more light on the rise of farming in the region. Researchers, led by ...

A symposium on Sumerian civilization and literature was recently held at Peking University, bringing together scholars and ...

Watch live as a total lunar eclipse flushes the moon red across the Western Hemisphere. The Earth will cast a shadow that ...

A rchaeologist and scholar Giorgio Buccellati’s book At the Origins of Politics describes how Mesopotamia’s urban revolution in the late fourth millennium BC shaped a new mentality. The segmentation ...

The Madison area, southern and central Wisconsin should have good viewing as skies are forecast to be partly cloudy overnight ...

Staff Writers Molly Hanley and Rania Woodward take opposite sides in the debate between physical books and e-readers.

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And a civilization in ancient Mesopotamia saw the blood red moon ... The Associated Press Health and Science Department receives support from the Howard Hughes Medical Institute’s Science ...

“into agricultural practices and management in the Euphrates floodplain and in Mesopotamia more broadly.” Tim Newcomb is a journalist based in the Pacific Northwest. He covers ...