In the course of a collaboration with the University of Baghdad, LMU's Enrique Jiménez has rediscovered a text that had been ...

Today we’re cooking one of the oldest known recipes in the world! That’s right, we’re travelling back in time to Mesopotamia and cooking the oldest cuisine in the world! Even though these recipes are ...

Step back in time as we recreate the world's oldest known recipe — a rich and hearty lamb stew from ancient Mesopotamia.

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 and ...

Why was the country of Iran formerly called Persia? What has this got to do with the conquests of ancient Middle Eastern ...

A Mesopotamian myth from nearly 4,000 years ago tells of a man who builds a boat to save the world from a divine flood, long ...

In the early 20th century, architects and artists like Hugh Ferriss drew on the myths and monuments of ancient Babylon to ...

In the long sweep of human history, few things are as natural or as irrationally feared as love between two people of the ...

Ancient Mesopotamia and the Birth of Written Recipes. The oldest known recipes were discovered on four Babylonian clay tablets that date back to approximately 1730 B.C. These tablets, written in ...

Dating from 1750 B.C., the palm-sized tablet is inscribed in Akkadian, the language spoken in ancient Mesopotamia at the time. Today, the tablet is part of the collections of the British Museum.

The Eridu region of southern Mesopotamia in present-day Iraq – one of the best preserved ancient archaeological sites – was occupied from the sixth until the early first millennium BC.