A roughly 4,800-year-old royal Mesopotamian cemetery in eastern Turkey appears to complicate existing theories about how some ...

The discovery of 'sacrificed' teenagers from 4,800 years ago in the royal tombs of an ancient Mesopotamian civilization ...

This theory was based on the idea that by the early Bronze Age, Mesopotamian societies were ... As such, it’s possible that the ancient inhabitants of Başur Höyük chose human sacrifice ...

A new book, The Library of Ancient Wisdom by Selena Wisnom at the University of Leicester, UK, pieces together a vivid portrait of Mesopotamian life from the shattered remnants of the 30,000 or so ...