Mesopotamia, a region that includes all of modern-day Iraq as well as parts of Syria, Turkey and Iran, formed a significant part of the Fertile Crescent. Located between the Tigris and Euphrates ...

Millennia ago, in the Fertile Crescent, the land nestled between the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers in what is now present-day Iran, the ancient Mesopotamian civilization of Sumer arose. Sumerians ...

agricultural communities in the Fertile Crescent region of the Middle East (Mesopotamia) developed a culinary culture. Researchers were intrigued by thick clay ceramic trays with an oval base and ...

The Assyrians are the indigenous people of Mesopotamia and have a history spanning over 6700 years ... Assyrian civilization at one time incorporated the entire Near East, most notably the area of the ...

First, in parallel with human cultural influences spreading out from the early cities of Mesopotamia, we see sheep genomes moving west within the Fertile Crescent around 7,000 years ago.