But is it the brilliant ancient relics assembles here that people come to see, in what is sometimes called the “cradle of Chinese civilization.” While digging a well in 1974, farmers from ...

Mesopotamia, between the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers, became the cradle of civilization due to its fertile land and the development of irrigation, which supported the growth of city-states like Ur ...

Sitting up in the rugged flanks of the Botan Valley, a series of fingerling rivers run between the hills, eventually joining ...

Scientists have long known that beer played an important role in ancient Mesopotamia, widely known as the cradle of human civilization, but they struggled to find concrete evidence of the beverage ...

McCarron’s new book, The Wounded Tigris: A River Journey through the Cradle of Civilization, is the sobering yet often funny and poignant account of their journey. The book is a celebration of Iraq’s ...

TEHRAN - Director of the archaeological team working on the ancient city of Jiroft (Daqyanoos), Hamideh Choubak, said on ...