The finds, which also include dozens of clay sealings, contain details of a metric system used to measure resources, as well ...

The artifacts were excavated from a city dating back to the third millennium B.C.E. by researchers from Iraq and the British ...

Red tape may feel like a modern-day frustration, but according to archaeologists, it's been a part of governance for ...

Going big and going early leads to an uptick in public interest and in those necessary donations. Unfortunately, it also ...

A symposium on Sumerian civilization and literature was recently held at Peking University, bringing together scholars and ...

Archaeologists from the British Museum and Iraq have uncovered over 200 4,000-year-old cuneiform tablets at Girsu, shedding ...

While the texts may not be great masterpieces of Sumerian literature, like the Epic of Gilgamesh, the British Museum’s curator for ancient Mesopotamia, director of the Girsu Project, Sébastien ...

The irrigation network consists of over 200 primary canals, some of which stretch up to nine kilometers in length and are between two and five meters wide.

This week, the Carbondale Clay Center celebrates over 30 artists who have played a pivotal role in the center’s development ...