University College London, the University of Central Lancashire, Ege University, and other institutions have discovered that ...

Bronze Age cymbals discovered in Oman show music's role in connecting ancient civilizations, shifting focus from trade to ...

Researchers previously assumed that some of the graves at the site were royal burials. A new study presents a different ...

Once part of ancient Mesopotamia, Başur Höyük is dated to between 3100 ... Age societies had evolved into large-scale states ...

Credit: Basur Höyük Excavation Project At the threshold of written history, when the first civilizations began to consolidate in Mesopotamia and Anatolia, the world experienced radical changes in ...

The teenagers’ skeletons were unearthed at the cemetery of Basur Höyük where researchers previously uncovered evidence of ...

Previous studies have hinted that this period corresponded to the rise of kingship in ancient Mesopotamia as part ... the king was at the top of the social hierarchy, researchers say.

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

The late political scientist enjoined readers to look for opposition to authoritarian states not in revolutionary vanguards ...

DNA study of Bronze Age tombs in Turkey reveals teenage human sacrifices, challenging ideas about early Mesopotamian society.