The Sumerians lived in Mesopotamia from about 4500 to 1750 B.C.E., and developed a number of technologies that changed the ...

What is it about Fridays and the number 13 that sends people into a superstitious tizzy? To find out, you need to go back a ...

It seems pretty simple to plant a tree. Dig a hole. Drop in a tree. Fill the hole. Add water. Go back inside and have a beer. What could go wrong? Yet year after year, we see trees planted incorrectly ...

Cuneiform tablets from ancient Mesopotamia cover a range of topics ... two were made in the 18th century B.C.E., during the reign of Hammurabi, and two in the 17th century B.C.E. The Imago ...

Law number 30 of the ancient Mesopotamian Hammurabi Code, dating back to the 1700s BC, talked about confiscating the lands and property of soldiers or sailors who had abandoned their fields and ...

Created by Hammurabi, the sixth king of Babylon, this extensive set of laws encompassed various aspects of Mesopotamian society. It contained the standards that should be adhered to and the penalties ...

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 ...

New discoveries at the ancient Mesopotamian site of Kurd Qaburstan by University ... “You may have heard of King Hammurabi, who erected the famous law code. So, this is about that same time almost ...

"We know quite a bit about Mesopotamian cities in the south ... "You may have heard of King Hammurabi, who erected the famous law code. So, this is about that same time almost 4,000 years ago.

Ancient Mesopotamia - now known as modern-day Iraq ... It became a major power during the reign of Hammurabi, its ruler during 1792–1750 BC. But the Babylonian Empire quickly fell apart ...