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Queen Puabi's lyre: A bull-headed music maker played for Mesopotamian royalty 4,500 years ago

A lyre in a treasure-laden royal tomb discovered in Mesopotamia is the earliest stringed instrument ever found.

LiveScience

7,000-year-old alien-like figurine from Kuwait a 'total surprise' to archaeologists

A newfound clay head from the sixth millennium B.C. is the first of its kind ever found in Kuwait, but similar finds have been unearthed from ancient Mesopotamia.

LiveScience

5,000-year-old artifacts in Iraq hint at mysterious collapse of one of the world's 1st governments

Newly analyzed 5,000-year-old clay bowls unearthed in Iraq may be evidence of early government-like rule, a new study finds.

LiveScience

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Major discovery on origin of writing in birthplace of civilization

The four original inventions of writing are recognized in Mesopotamia, Egypt, China, and the Mayan culture

The Independent UK

Origins of world's earliest writing point to symbols on 'seals' used in Mesopotamian trade

Researchers investigating how the first writing arose identified the motifs on preliterate "cylinder seals" used in the trade of agricultural products and textiles.

LiveScience

Why ancient Mesopotamians would have used a sheep’s liver to predict Donald Trump’s election odds

I’m standing in a basement kitchen prodding at a sheep’s liver, looking for marks on its smooth surface. People crowd around to film the proceedings, since I’m here to ask a question that everyone wants to know the answer to: will Donald Trump win the US election?

The Conversation

Archaeologists discover 4,000-year-old Bronze Age settlement hidden in Saudi Arabian oasis

A Bronze Age settlement hidden on the Arabian Peninsula reveals secrets about the slow growth of urbanization in the region.

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There Are Rivers in the Sky by Elif Shafak review – story of a raindrop

This ambitious, multi-perspective novel about the politics and preciousness of water ranges from ancient Mesopotamia to contemporary London

The Guardian - UK

'A king will die': 4,000-year-old lunar eclipse omen tablets finally deciphered

Tablets added to the British Museum's collection many decades ago have finally been deciphered.

LiveScience

Total War: Pharaoh Dynasties has quietly become one of the best historical Total War games ever

One of the biggest updates in the history of the franchise has left us with a rich Bronze Age sandbox.

PC Gamer

Swiss Return Three Confiscated Artefacts To Iraq

Switzerland's foreign minister on Friday returned to her Iraqi counterpart three important Mesopotamian objects seized during a criminal procedure, the Swiss government said.

International Business Times

Babylon's Ishtar Gate may have a totally different purpose than we thought, magnetic field measurements suggest

Archaeologists measured the magnetic fields found in clay bricks to determine the construction date of Babylon's Ishtar Gate.

LiveScience

Iron oxide baked into Mesopotamian bricks confirms ancient magnetic field anomaly

About 3,000 years ago in ancient Mesopotamia, brickmakers imprinted the names of their kings into clay bricks. Now, an analysis of the metal grains in those bricks has confirmed a mysterious anomaly in Earth's magnetic field.

LiveScience

Necromancers, demons and friendly ghosts: humans have been fascinated with the afterlife since ancient Mesopotamia

As Halloween approaches, we start to think about ghosts, monsters, and demons.

The Conversation

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What was the longest-lasting civilization?

Is the longest-lasting civilization China, ancient Egypt or Mesopotamia? Here's a look at the evidence for each of these enduring cultures.

The Conversation

AI is helping us read ancient Mesopotamian literature

[… who s]aw the Deep, […] the country,

The Guardian - UK

First records of human kissing may date back 1,000 years earlier than estimated

Evidence suggests ancient Mesopotamians kissed and practice could be more culturally universal than previously thought

The Conversation

ChatGPT is confronting, but humans have always adapted to new technology – ask the Mesopotamians, who invented writing

Adapting to technological advances is a defining part of 21st-century life. But it’s not unique to us: it’s been part of the human story since our earliest written records – even featuring in the plotlines of ancient myths and legends.

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Genoa, an example on how to rethink cultural heritage and urban sustainability

Urban planning has a long history, stretching back to Ancient Greece and even Mesopotamia. Many centuries later, Europe finally caught up with the idea when Genoa developed the Strade Nuove and the Palazzi dei Rolli – the “new streets” and “Rolli palaces” – in the late 1500s.

Daily Mirror

Official claims China 'created' ancient Egypt 1,000 years before it existed

China is the world's fourth oldest civilisation, but is pre-dated by Mesopotamia (4,000BC), Egypt (3,100BC), and the Indus Valley civilisations (3,300 BC) and is generally thought to have started around 2,000 BC

Asharq Al-Awsat

In Search of Enheduanna, the Woman Who Was History’s First Named Author

It was a random morning in November, and Enheduanna was trending. Suddenly, the ancient Mesopotamian priestess, who had been dead for more than 4,000 years, was a hot topic online as word spread that the first individually named author in human history was … a woman? That may have been…

Evening Standard

Stonehenge mystery solved as a solar calendar - with links to ancient Egypt

The prehistoric monument may have a simpler purpose than we thought and link the English mystery to ancient Egypt and Mesopotamia.

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