Often considered as the world’s oldest surviving work of epic literature, the Epic of Gilgamesh unsurprisingly mirrors the cultural brilliance of the ancient Mesopotamians. In…
Alluding to a rare career graph, Stef Conner, after completing her degree in music composition, was gravitated towards the veritable trove of ancient Babylonian literature…
It is hypothesized that beer (or at least the precursor to beer-like concoctions) was probably developed independently in different parts of the world. In fact,…
Sometimes all it takes is a ‘strategic’ collaboration between opposing parties to unveil the literary brilliance of our ancestors. Well, in 2011, the fortuitous partnership…
Mesopotamia as a regional toponym relates to a conglomeration of areas from various modern-day nations, including Iraq, Kuwait, Syria, Turkey and even Iraq-Iran borders. Now historically, the relevance…
When it comes to the early historical scope of Mesopotamia, there were no singular factions or political entities that ruled the extensive lands between and…
Previously, we had talked about the oldest known song in the world, better known as the Hurrian Song to Nikkal, which was originally composed in…
The Sumerian city-state of Lagash in what is now south-eastern Iraq, boasted one of the oldest settlements in ancient Near-East. And now archaeologists have found…
Over the last few months, we have harped about quite a few world’s oldest historical artifacts and institutions, ranging from the oldest known song to…
