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 ...

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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 ...

A fierce rivalry between four scholars ignited a race to crack the world’s oldest writing, unlocking the secrets of Mesopotamia after millennia of silence.

Archaeologists say they've found "the very first material evidence of the very first empire in the world" in 4,000-year-old ...

In the rolling countryside of Northeast Ohio, where horse-drawn buggies clip-clop along winding roads and time seems to move at its own leisurely pace, sits a red brick building that houses treasures ...

When a vast library of texts amassed by Mesopotamian King Ashurbanipal was burned to the ground about 2700 years ago, the ...

Modern historiography has tended to assume that violence was the primary driving force behind the formation of the first ...