Rashid's must-read, millennia-spanning history, cleverly wrought from tablets written in the world's oldest script ...

He argued that these ancient civilizations were the ancestors to Europeans and the ones primarily responsible for contemporary western civilization—not people living in other parts of Africa and ...

near the German border Sonja Anderson In the 1850s, cuneiform was just a series of baffling scratches on clay, waiting to spill the secrets of the ancient civilizations of Mesopotamia ...

Mesopotamia ... civilization. One of Nebuchadrezzar’s successors, Nabonidus, is now known to modern historians as “the archaeologist king.” A learned man, he restored the region’s ancient ...

Who were the Ancient Egyptians? Were they black Africans? Why should their origins matter so much? Is the history of Egypt being used by some African ... traders from the Mesopotamia area.

In the 1850s, cuneiform was just a series of baffling scratches on clay, waiting to spill the secrets of the ancient civilizations of Mesopotamia Inside the fight to memorialize victims of the ...