An interior capital shows the dwarf deity Bes playing a harp and a drum, suggesting that music ... The zodiac system was devised by the Babylonians in Mesopotamia around 4,000 years ago and ...

Selected as one of 25 contestants from thousands of applicants, they spent two weeks in Los Angeles, made it to the finals, ...

The world has been trying to drum these lessons into us since the ... warns against cutting down the cedar forests of Mesopotamia. But the moral was disregarded and what was once the city of ...

So we’re talking about six, seven millennia, there are traces of music from the Phoenician Sumerian, you know ... You’ll hear catchy, contemporary tunes, even drum and bass-inspired pieces played on ...

The tablets were discovered in the Sumerian site of Girsu, called Tello today. Settled around 4500 B.C.E. in modern-day Iraq, Sumer is the world’s oldest known civilization. During the third ...

However, the finds don’t make much sense given what experts understand of early Mesopotamia. It all comes down to location. Başur Höyük wasn’t a major cultural center; it was located on the ...

He also invented Friday cat blogging. By Clay Risen Kevin Drum, who gave up his day job in software marketing to write online about politics, policy and his cats, quickly becoming a key figure in ...

Well-known to followers of the blogosphere and seekers of intelligent, percipient commentary on public policy, Kevin Drum passed away Friday after a long battle with multiple myeloma, a cancer of ...

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Our friend and colleague Kevin Drum passed away on March 7. He was 66 and had been living with multiple myeloma for 11 years, and being the extraordinary journalist he was, he had taken readers ...

(His coverage of Elon Musk’s rampage through the federal bureaucracy has few rivals.) Kevin Drum, who joined this magazine in April 2004 and wrote our “Political Animal” blog for the next ...