A significant portion of human development and history may be traced back to the ancient civilization of Mesopotamia, in and around present-day Iraq.

This 8th-century miniature, by the Spanish monk Beatus of Liébana, depicts the Bible story of Babylonian King Nebuchadrezzar eating grass as divine punishment. Photograph by Granger Collection ...

A roughly 4,800-year-old royal Mesopotamian cemetery in eastern Turkey appears to complicate existing theories about how some Bronze Age societies shifted from egalitarianism to more rigid class ...

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Researchers have uncovered a vast and well-preserved network of ancient irrigation canals in the Eridu region of southern Mesopotamia, shedding new light on early farming practices. The research ...

At the threshold of written history, when the first civilizations began to consolidate in Mesopotamia and Anatolia, the world ...

A symposium on Sumerian civilization and literature was recently held at Peking University, bringing together scholars and ...