Archaeologist and scholar Giorgio Buccellati’s book At the Origins of Politics describes how Mesopotamia’s urban revolution in the late fourth millennium BC shaped a new mentality.

A 4,400-year-old settlement uncovered by archaeologists has provided remarkable insights into the pace of urbanisation on the Arabian Peninsula during the Bronze Age. A recent study indicates that ...

While early civilizations in Mesopotamia and Egypt flourished with complex social systems and larger populations, al-Natah developed a different model of urban life suited to its environment.