For instance, there's some doubt over whether Thomas Edison really came up with the idea of the motion picture camera — or whether he pinched it. There's also a question mark over whether "ignored" ...

Hodder & Stoughton has pre-empted a new history of Mesopotamia, The Princess and the Key, by Oxford academic and debut author Dr Moudhy Al-Rashid. Senior commissioning editor Anna Baty secured world ...

In Greek, Mesopotamia means 'land between the rivers', and the term came to be applied to the land between the two great rivers, the Tigris and the Euphrates, which flow from eastern Turkey, through ...

Researchers made the new discoveries during field work at the Bronze Age site of Kurd Qaburstan. The research provides insights into regional heritage and fills gaps in knowledge about how ancient ...

Back in the day, Ancient Mesopotamia was the place to be. Considering the geographical area of some of humanity’s most important inventions, the wheel, mathematics, astronomy, agriculture, and writing ...

Assyriologist Al-Rashid debuts with an eclectic history of Mesopotamia framed around an ancient collection of artifacts widely considered to be the first museum. Located in a room in a palace in Ur ...

Lipstick has a 5000 year history, but the lipstick tube as we know it was only invented in 1923.(Getty Images) According to the many magazine articles on the subject, it would appear that the most ...

Dictionary of the Ancient Near East edited by P Bienkowski and A Millard (London, 2000) Ancient Near Eastern Art by D Collon (London, 1995) Mesopotamia by JE Reade (London, 1991/2000) Assyrian ...