Written sources from Mesopotamia suggest that kissing in relation to sex was practiced by the peoples of the ancient Middle East 4,500 years ago. Recent research has hypothesised that the earliest ...

Lessons from the past: an Introduction -- Kingship descends from heaven: the urban revolution before 4000 BCE -- The City of Gilgamesh: temple rule between c. 4000 and 3000 BCE -- The flood: a Caesura ...

Mesopotamia was one of the cradles of civilization 6000 years ago, located in the fertile valley between the rivers Tigris and Euphrates, it was the birthplace of current day society and the first ...

When was the first kiss? Recent papers have suggested that romantic or sexual kissing began 3,500 years ago in what is now India. But a new review paper in the journal Science says that this style of ...

A new and spellbinding book tells the history of the very ancient past of Mesopotamia, the land between the rivers Euphrates and Tigris. Between Two Rivers by Moudhy Al-Rashid, a researcher at the ...

A recent scientific breakthrough has unveiled a captivating genetic link between the ancient civilizations of Egypt and Mesopotamia. Delving into the DNA of a 4,600-year-old skeleton, researchers have ...