Upper Mesopotamia was a region between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers in what is now Turkey and Iran. Researchers believe the region played a major role in the Neolithic Transition, when people ...

Agatha Christie's adventurous 'second act' plays out in Mesopotamia After a devastating divorce, the crime novelist took a trip to Baghdad in 1928 and lost her heart—to the ancient sites of Iraq ...

Iraq is grappling with one of the worst droughts in its history. Water levels in Turkish dams feeding Iraq’s rivers remain critically low, and this year’s winter rains have failed to provide enough ...

Object Details Author Curtis, John Lukonin, Vladimir Grigorévich British Museum Trustees Notes This is a companion volume and sequel to Early Mesopotamia and Iran: Contact and Conflict, c. 3500-1600 ...

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 ...