Supported by Ministry of Culture, Framji Dadabhoy Alpaiwalla Museum in Khareghat Colony reopened on Thursday. It offers ...

and also slaves captured from the mountains surrounding Mesopotamia. (A typical word for slave was “mountain girl.”) The textiles woven by this labor were consigned to merchants to act as ...

Of all the mythical beasts conjured up by the creative minds of history, few are as well known as the unicorn. With the body ...

This phenomenon is illustrated in the case of the merchant Ea-nāṣir ... The study by Garfinkle and Richardson debunks the vision of a Mesopotamia ruled by systematic violence and presents a model in ...

A rchaeologist and scholar Giorgio Buccellati’s book At the Origins of Politics describes how Mesopotamia’s urban revolution in the late fourth millennium BC shaped a new mentality. The segmentation ...

Throughout the second and third millennia BC, Indus merchants traded with people ... such as ancient Egypt, Mesopotamia, and the Maya. That is largely because of the undeciphered script, which ...

Jacob of Edessa (633–708) portrays him as a land merchant in the Holy Land, Phoenicia, and Arabia in northern Mesopotamia, referring to him as “Mahmat.” The Armenian bishop Sebeos ...

The concept of credit can be said to date back thousands of years ago to ancient Mesopotamia ... between Mesopotamian and neighboring merchants from Harappa and are among the earliest known ...

By this action, British authorities further enumerated protected goods that could only be sold to British merchants ... date back thousands of years to Mesopotamia. The Spanish, French, and ...

Merchants were required to test their measuring devices against ... Ancient Greeks used a weight like the Sumerian tablet. Credit: Jastrow, CC BY 2.5/Wikipedia Commons The Attic talent, for instance, ...