More than a thousand years after it was last heard, an AI translator has brought a long-lost hymn to the ancient city of ...

At its peak some 3,000 years ago, the ancient Mesopotamian city of Babylon was the largest metropolis on Earth.

Mashkan--shapir was for a brief time one of the most important cities in the world. Its remains challenge traditional notions of power distribution in early urban society ...

Mesopotamia was one of the cradles of civilization 6000 years ago, located in the fertile valley between the rivers Tigris and Euphrates, it was the birthplace of current day society and the first ...

Early cities like Uruk, Ur, and Eridu became the heart of Mesopotamian civilization. We're not just talking about agriculture here. These cities were also bustling with culture, trade, and innovation.

A ground-penetrating eye in the sky has helped to rehydrate an ancient southern Mesopotamian city, tagging it as what amounted to a Venice of the Fertile Crescent. Identifying the watery nature of ...

People in ancient Mesopotamia depended on rivers. But rivers sometime moved, imposing stress on communities. Research shows how this led people to form the first organized governments.

Near the present-day city of Basra in Iraq, and about 12 kilometers southwest of the site of ancient Ur, is the site of Eridu (Eridug in Sumerian), the southernmost of all the great Mesopotamian ...

The archaeologists have also unearthed several structures built at different times, including at least one built with pillars that signify the influence of the southern Mesopotamian city of Uruk.

The traditional model of early Mesopotamian urban development holds that cities were compact settlements that expanded out from a central monumental religious complex. However, a recent remote ...

Most travel on some kind of road everyday, but how did they get there? Here's the long and winding history of roads and highways from Mesopotamia to modern day.

In the early 20th century, architects turned to a newly discovered past to craft novel visions of the future: the ancient history of Mesopotamia. Eva Miller traces how both the mythology of Babel ...