Mesopotamia, a region that includes all of modern-day Iraq ... Assyria and Babylonia. Its position between ancient Egypt and the Indus River Valley region—an area encompassing modern-day Afghanistan ...

There is not a ton of evidence of what education looked like in ancient society, but we do know it existed - although not for ...

The ancient Egyptians were black Africans. The Phoenicians (today's light-skinned Egyptians) are originally descendants of Lebanese traders from the Mesopotamia area. They began settling in Egypt ...

Dr Evans, a senior lecturer in diaspora history, said antiquities from the British Museum showed how ancient civilizations in Mesopotamia, Egypt, Greece and India all adopted the gesture for ...