Three hundred archaeological objects from 15 institutions trace long-distance trade, shared beliefs and cultural exchange ...

Archaeologists in southern Turkey have uncovered a 3,500-year-old clay tablet that reads less like royal propaganda and more ...

Hebrew University researchers uncovered 8,000-year-old pottery showing floral patterns built on precise geometric ...

A new study reveals that the Halafian culture of northern Mesopotamia (c. 6200–5500 BCE) produced the earliest systematic ...

SCRIBE STATUE. FOUND: Lagash, Iraq. CULTURE: Sumerian. DATE: ca. 2400 B.C. LANGUAGE: Sumerian. In early 2016, hundreds of media outlets around the world reported that a set of recently deciphered ...

WHY IRAQ? WHY NOW? Long overlooked and often misunderstood, Iraq is re-emerging as a destination of profound cultural and historical significance. Known as the heart of ancient Mesopotamia - where ...

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 ...

The fear of vampires did not begin with Dracula. Several thousand years ago, the ancient Mesopotamians had already recorded ...

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 ...

Have you ever wondered where the world’s first city was born? Archaeologists widely recognise a city that is located in ...

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