Perched on the edge of a river near the city of Siirt, Türkiye, is an archaeological site that offers a chance to completely ...

Supported by Ministry of Culture, Framji Dadabhoy Alpaiwalla Museum in Khareghat Colony reopened on Thursday. It offers ...

Oxford historian, Dr Moudhy Al Rashid, on her book Between Two Rivers: Ancient Mesopotamia and the Birth of History ...

World Poetry Day came and went without much of a fanfare. March 21 was held in awe by many as the first (or second) day of spring leaving poetry to ...

The texts contain cuneiform symbols, an early writing system, and show the red tape of government bureaucracy dates back over ...

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

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

Archaeologists from the British Museum and Iraq have uncovered over 200 4,000-year-old cuneiform tablets at Girsu, shedding light on the earliest known empire's complex bureaucracy.

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

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

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 ...