Bronze Age architecture was characterised by city walls constructed from massive stone blocks. To overpower defenders and breach these fortifications, new siege technologies were developed. Besieging ...

The standard ancient daily ration in these early Mesopotamian cities for the workers and enslaved people was two cups ... so that the trades for weights of grain and silver could correspond easily.

AMMAN - Among the oldest and most effective weapons of antiquity were simple and composite bows.Widely used during the Bronze ...

The Cucuteni-Tripolye culture flourished between about 5200-3000 BC. At its apogee between about 4000-3500 BC, its people had ...

Mesopotamian trade symbols may be origins of proto-cuneiform. Cylinder seals linked trade to early script development. Study shows transition from trade symbols to structured writing.

For example, they are not averse to grand narratives and believe modern economic theory can offer insights into various features of ancient economies, including markets ... activities crossed ...

Archaeologists have long known that the Maya Lowlands, in the southernmost region of Mexico, harbors ancient urban settings (SN: 10/25/21). When archaeologist Luke Auld-Thomas, of Tulane ...

open image in gallery A proto-cuneiform tablet is seen in this image. Proto-cuneiform was an ancient Mesopotamia writing system that came at the end of the fourth millennium BC (Courtesy of CDLI ...

It also functioned like an early form of branding to identify institutions, the senders of goods or the destinations of the products as they made their way around ancient societies in modern day Iran, ...

This discovery supports an older idea. Long ago, in ancient Mesopotamia (now part of Iraq), people developed a writing system known as cuneiform around 3100 B.C. It may have been established as a way ...

The origins of writing in Mesopotamia lie in the images imprinted by ancient cylinder seals on clay tablets and other artifacts. A research group from the University of Bologna has identified a series ...