The heartland of the Sumerian world lay in what is today southern Iraq, an area of parched
but potentially fertile silt and marshland which lies between two great rivers, the Euphrates …

Background For millennia, the southern part of the Mesopotamia has been a wetland region
generated by the Tigris and Euphrates rivers before flowing into the Gulf. This area has been …

This article discusses the identity of the people buried in the Great Death Pit PG 1237, a
mass grave of the Royal Cemetery of Ur, and the ways they died and entered the shaft …

Kurds are traditionally regarded as Iranians and of Iranian origin, and therefore as Indo-
Europeans, mainly, because they speak Iranian. This hypothesis is largely based on …

ŚWIAToWIT• X (LI)/A• 2012 by acid-producing bacteria feeding on sugars included in human
diet. Also periodontal disease, ie infections of alveolar process, was frequent in pre-Modern …

As a result of a review of the available literature and some unpublished sources, data on
ante mortem cranial trauma have been gathered for 25 archaeological sites from …

Fifty-nine dental non-metric traits were scored using Arizona State University Dental
Anthropology System on a sample of teeth from 350 human skeletons excavated at three …

Objectives Stable carbon and nitrogen isotope ratios (δ13C and δ15N) were used to
reconstruct the history of subsistence strategies in the middle Euphrates valley, NE Syria, in …

The writings of 1st century historian Flavius Josephus describe Adam's vision of the earth's
destruction by flood and flame. Josephus also implies that Enoch, the first holy man and …

The Sumerians are widely believed to have created the world's earliest civilization on the
fertile floodplains of southern Iraq from about 3500 to 2000 BCE. They have been credited …