The hunt for the Garden of Eden has usually belonged to theologians and dreamers, not software coders. Yet a computer ...

Chogha Zanbil was first spotted from a surveillance airplane in 1935. The excavated complex was discovered to be one of the few ziggurats built outside Mesopotamia. The ruins of the ancient Elamite ...

For over 3,000 years, civilizations that never met and never shared a language somehow imagined the same terrifying place: a realm of judgment, suffering, and cosmic consequence. From Mesopotamia’s ...

The Assyrian business community also had the first businesswomen and female investors. Generous tax breaks were given to ...

Around 2112 B.C., the Sumerian king Ur-Namma (r. 2112–2095 B.C.) united the city-states of southern Mesopotamia into a short-lived kingdom known today as the Third Dynasty of Ur, or Ur III. More than ...

According to National Geographic, the map depicts distances between gates in the wall surrounding the Mesopotamian city of Nippur, but for decades experts questioned its accuracy. The locations of ...

Imago Mundi, Babylonian oldest map of the world finally solved. Credit: Osama Shukir Muhammed Amin / CC BY-SA 4.0 A recent video from the British Museum highlights the Imago Mundi, the oldest known ...

Bar Mesopotamia is a unique and stunning Brisbane venue tucked away in Milton, which offers a sophisticated and intimate setting for any occasion, big or small. From birthday, engagement and ...

During his campaign in Egypt at the turn of the 19th century, Napoleon told his soldiers that “from the summit of these pyramids, 40 centuries look down upon you.” It’s an extraordinary length of time ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Ancient DNA has revealed a genetic link between the cultures of ancient Egypt and Mesopotamia, according to research published Wednesday in the journal Nature. Researchers sequenced ...