We believe quality journalism should be available to everyone, paid for by those who can afford it. In Mesopotamia, the birthplace of civilization, the earliest known writing system started around ...

Yet to historians and archaeologists, Babylon is a real bricks-and-mortar place at the center of the vibrant Mesopotamian culture that it dominated for so many centuries. The Amorites, including ...

This monograph is an essential resource for specialists and students of the New Testament as well as for scholars interested in religious transmission in the ancient Near East and the afterlife of ...

Ancient cylinder seals in Mesopotamia shaped the development of proto-cuneiform writing in Uruk around 3000 BCE, linking prehistoric imagery to the inception of written communication. Researchers from ...

59-91 (33 pages) In an effort to identify the social sources and environmental consequences of axial thinking, and in particular of rational naturalism, three civilizational centres are compared: ...

artistic and political traditions that characterize Western civilization. These ideas emerged during antiquity from societies located primarily in the Eastern and Central Mediterranean, including ...

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He reconstructs the Greek appropriation of Mesopotamian semantics while arguing that, despite geographical distance and cultural constraints, the Greeks adopted and transformed Babylonian cosmological ...