The teenagers’ skeletons were unearthed at the cemetery of Basur Höyük where researchers previously uncovered evidence of “grand funerary rituals” and the burial of “spectacular” quantities of ...

Receipts for beer, instructions for exorcising a ghost and a lullaby for a restless child - are just some inscriptions from the ancient people of Mesopotamia we can use to look back in time. And what ...

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 ...

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 ...

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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I’d visit that museum weekly, particularly as a former teen who once ... and wondered if there was enough barley wine in all of Mesopotamia to get her through these teenage years.