The discovery that farming might not have been the catalyst for civilisation means we must completely rethink the timeline of ...

Photograph by Werner Forman, GTRES This story appears in the January/February 2017 issue of National Geographic History magazine. Mesopotamia—“the land between two rivers”—gave birth to ...

Rashid's must-read, millennia-spanning history, cleverly wrought from tablets written in the world's oldest script ...