Modern historiography has tended to assume that violence was the primary driving force behind the formation of the first ...

Artifacts suggest Kurd Qaburstan was a thriving city around 1800 BCE, coinciding with the reign of the Babylonian king Hammurabi ... and the have-nots in ancient Mesopotamia, suggesting a ...

Digital Hammurabi, a famous podcast about the ancient Near East, interviewed the professor of the study of the ancient Near East of the university of Helsinki Saana Svärd on the topic "Understanding ...

The ziggurats of Sumer, the Ishtar Gate of Babylon, and the code of Hammurabi all stand as enduring symbols of Mesopotamian ...