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6,000-Year-Old Locks: The First Security Systems of Ancient Mesopotamia

The world’s first known lock-and-key system, dating back to 4000 BCE in Mesopotamia, shows how ancient people protected their ...
Ancient Origins

Ancient Mesopotamian Map May Be World's First Urban Blueprint

According to National Geographic, the map depicts distances between gates in the wall surrounding the Mesopotamian city of Nippur, but for decades experts questioned its accuracy. The locations of ...
Publishers Weekly

Babylon: Mesopotamia and the Birth of Civilization

Recent events in Iraq, Iran, and Turkey recall ancient and equally dramatic events in Babylon and Mesopotamia, whose lands these countries now occupy. A magnificent storyteller and a careful historian ...
Jewish Journal

LA’s Getty Villa Exhibits Treasures From Ancient Mesopotamia

“Mesopotamia: Civilization Begins” features artworks on loan from Musée du Louvre, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Bibliothèque nationale de France, and Musée Auguste Grasset – Varzy. (Getty Museum) (The ...
Los Angeles Times

Getty Villa reopens with ancient treasures from the Louvre

To reopen Wednesday after a yearlong closure during the COVID-19 pandemic, the Getty Villa has at last unveiled “Mesopotamia: Civilization Begins.” The show, originally scheduled to open in March 2020 ...
Daily Journal

Ancient DNA shows genetic link between Egypt and Mesopotamia

WASHINGTON (AP) — Ancient DNA has revealed a genetic link between the cultures of ancient Egypt and Mesopotamia, according to research published Wednesday in the journal Nature. Researchers sequenced ...
Wall Street Journal

From the Cradle of Civilization

Asked what he wanted for his 11th birthday, Timothy Potts begged for books about ancient Mesopotamia—an early sign of the passion that would lead him to a distinguished career as a Near Eastern ...