While ancient historians create their works, they make citations to the narrative of previous authors and did text quotes. These quotations were meant enrich both author's work provide wider information about nations. Ancient writers used narrations these societies while giving history distant nations, such as Egypt Mesopotamia. Many have benefited from nonextant Berossos for Mesopotamia mythol...

Many stone tools were found on a hill south of the Hor Al-Dalmaj which is located in central part alluvial plain Mesopotamia, between Tigris and Euphrates Rivers. The types rocks from studied made are not plain, because it consists friable sand, silt, clay. All existing sediments precipitated riverine environments such as point bar, over bank, floodplain sediments. collected described with magn...

Writing of plague in and around Baghdad at present is very much like reviewing a tragedy of which only two acts have appeared, and no one knows the end. In order to make my account better understood, I would premise some observations on the general features of the country, after that glance at the towns, and then give some account of the domestic life of the people, who are little understood ev...

Where and when glass production began is uncertain. It is thought by some that the first glass was probably developed in the Mitannian or Hurrian region of Mesopotamia, possibly as an extension of the production of glazes (*5000 BCE) [1]. Around this same time, a new material called faience was developed, which was produced by utilizing a variety of techniques to create a glaze layer over a sil...

The landscapes of the Near East show both the first settlements and the longest trajectories of settlement systems. Mounding is a characteristic property of these settlement sites, resulting from millennia of continuing settlement activity at distinguished places. So far, however, this defining feature of ancient settlements has not received much attention, or even been the subject of systemati...

The transdimensional Bayesian method AH-RJMCMC applied to archeomagnetic intensity data available in the Balkans and Near East allows us estimate variations of geomagnetic field Upper Mesopotamia during 7th 6th millennia BCE (Late Neolithic), with adequate treatment dating uncertainties. results for millennium appear particularly interesting because there is enough trace rapid variations, two c...

A. " The First Internationalism " or the " First Dark Age " ? Half a century ago, Chicago Egyptologist Helene Kantor (1952) assembled some surprising observations on items traded into Egypt just as the first pharaohs were uniting the Nile Valley and the Delta into a single state at the end of the fourth millennium BC. Not only were some items, such as the cylinder seals being used by government...

Mesopotamia is the broad, flat alluvial plain between the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers in what is today Syria and Iraq (Fig. 1). Under the rule of Sargon of Akkad, the world’s first united empire was established in this region, linking the remote agricultural hinterlands of northern Mesopotamia with the complex city-states in the south. This united empire extended from the Persian Gulf to the he...