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Dating back more than 4,500 years, the skeleton belonged to a middle-aged man who may have worked as a potter and likely ...
Kings and Generals’ historical animated series returns with a deep dive into the origins of commerce in the ancient world.
Ancient DNA has revealed links between the cultures of Egypt and Mesopotamia. Researchers sequenced whole genomes from the ...
Mesopotamia is known as the 'cradle of civilization' primarily because of two developments: the invention of the 'city' as we know it today and the invention of writing.
In a first, researchers have sequenced the complete genome of a man from ancient Egypt, and the results reveal that he had ...
Correspondent photo / Karla Dines Ken Lotzgesell of Orwell, left, and Joe Scirocco of Mesopotamia use 10-foot shovels to add ...
More than 4,000 years ago, Egypt and Mesopotamia stood as two of the most complex societies on the planet. But the new DNA ...
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