Iraq's Embassy in Ankara has officially received 6 ancient Mesopotamian clay tablets from Turkey in a ceremony, part of ...

Beneath the rugged mountains of southeastern Iran, archaeologists are carefully unearthing traces of a Bronze Age society ...

The royal tombs of Ur revealed Mesopotamia's golden splendor. Leonard Woolley’s excavation of Ur yielded an archaeologist’s dream: a series of intact burials from one of the world's most ...

The earliest recorded kiss goes back at least 4,500 years to Mesopotamia Researchers cite clay tablets and other materials that push back evidence of kissing by about 1,000 years May 18, 2023 More ...

Ruled by Hammurabi, restored by Nebuchadrezzar, conquered by Cyrus—this city in the heart of Mesopotamia was both desired and despised, placing it at the center stage of the dawn of history.

Corresponding to an area comprising of today’s Iraq, part of Syria, and Turkey, the heartland of Mesopotamia stretched between the Euphrates and Tigris rivers. It encompassed different peoples ...

The world’s oldest recorded teenage complaint. Recently, historian Dr. Esmé James shared what’s essentially a 4,000-year-old text message from a teenager to his mother. This clay tablet ...

The author, a historian brings to life the world of ancient Mesopotamia and the city of Babylon, tracing their rise from a loose federation to a monarchy to the rise of ancient Sumerian civilization, ...

Designs on stone cylinders dating back six thousand years correspond to some signs of the proto-cuneiform script that emerged in the city of Uruk, in southern Iraq, around 3350–3000 BCE.