The artifacts are presented in a sweeping display ... near today’s Baghdad—an indication of the wide-ranging impact of Mesopotamian sculpture. “The distressing news about the looting ...

"We know quite a bit about Mesopotamian cities in the south ... and other administrative artifacts in the lower town palace ...

Emerging from communities on the banks of the Tigris, in present-day Iraq, the Assyrians had conquered Babylon and Egypt and ruled in the Mesopotamian region from around 1300-600 B.C. At the dig ...