Iraq's Embassy in Ankara has officially received 6 ancient Mesopotamian clay tablets from Turkey in a ceremony, part of ...

Beneath the rugged mountains of southeastern Iran, archaeologists are carefully unearthing traces of a Bronze Age society ...

AnuZigguratUruk #WarkaIraq #WhiteTemple Explore Mesopotamia some 6000 years ago, where one of the cradles of civilization and ...

THE thesis which it is proposed to outline here embodies the following propositions: (1) Available evidence points to Mesopotamia as the oldest known centre of scientific observation permanently ...

EXPECTATION of the importance of the results likely to be obtained by the joint expedition of the British Museum and the British School of Archæology in Iraq to Tell Arpachiyah in northern ...

Archaeologist and scholar Giorgio Buccellati’s book At the Origins of Politics describes how Mesopotamia’s urban revolution in the late fourth millennium BC shaped a new mentality.

Designs on stone cylinders dating back six thousand years correspond to some signs of the proto-cuneiform script that emerged in the city of Uruk, in southern Iraq, around 3350–3000 BCE.

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

Across continents and centuries, wine has held a special place in the human story -- a symbol of celebration, connection, and culture. From the ancient vineyards of Mesopotamia and the sun-kissed ...

Mesopotamia Artifacts Help Explain How Language Evolved from Pictures to Words By comparing early markings used for business purposes to 'proto' cuneiform, we can say language transitioned from ...

Mesopotamia - the legendary land between the Euphrates and the Tigris - was an open laboratory 4,500 years ago. Scribes pressed reed pens into soft clay and invented cuneiform, ...