…and declared a protectorate over Egypt. By the Anglo-French Sykes-Picot Agreement (January 3, 1916), the French sphere was confirmed and extended eastward to Mosul in Iraq. A British sphere of influence in Mesopotamia extended as far north as Baghdad, and Britain was given control of ...
By about 8000 years ago, several complex agro-urban cultures with writing, bureaucracies, and religions had developed in Mesopotamia and China. However, in all cases, such cultures relied absolutely on agriculture, which, in turn, was only viable in a relatively stable climate. Although the Holoc...
By about 8000 years ago, several complex agro-urban cultures with writing, bureaucracies, and religions had developed in Mesopotamia and China. However, in all cases, such cultures relied absolutely on agriculture, which, in turn, was only viable in a relatively stable climate. Although the Holoc...
The flooding of the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers in Mesopotamia in 628 AD was probably one of the main reasons for the fall of the Sassanid dynasty. Blazeri, the Islamic historian, attributes the end of the reign of Khosrow Parviz to the occurrence of this great flood. The event led to ...
Its production increased significantly with large quantities of artefacts being made from the second level of the “Troy” excavation, in the catacombs of Alaca Höyük and other sites in the Eastern Mediterranean, particularly in the royal tombs of the city of Ur (Mesopotamia). The enduring ...