The findings, published in the journal iScience, shed light on how the inhabitants of Mesopotamia, now modern-day Iraq, understood and expressed emotions like happiness, anger, and love.

Study authors explained that stamp seals were used on clay for administrative purposes from the late seventh millennium BCE ...

Although Babylon declined after Hammurabi’s death, its importance as the capital of southern Mesopotamia, now known as Babylonia, would linger for millennia. Monumental FollySaddam Hussein’s ...