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 ...

Makeup is often seen as modern glamour, but its story is ancient — a language of identity, power, protection, and ritual that ...

The 12th Duhok International Film Festival opened with 110 films, focused on climate change, and featuring Spain as the guest country, aiming to showcase Kurdish cinema and reconnect the region with ...

Assyrian cuneiform tablet from Kanesh(Courtesy of the Yale Babylonian Collection/Photography by Alberto Urcia/Text NBC 1907) Harvard University Assyriologist Gojko Barjamovic is currently ...

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 ...

Ca. 2300–2000 b.c. The head likely depicts a Mesopotamian ruler and is one of the earliest known life-size lost-wax metal sculptures to survive. It had been thought that the head was virtually solid, ...

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 ...

A few weeks ago, a disappointing item appeared in my newsfeed. The Farmer's Almanac, published in New Jersey for 150 years ...