Supported by Ministry of Culture, Framji Dadabhoy Alpaiwalla Museum in Khareghat Colony reopened on Thursday. It offers ...

The U.S. military did major damage to the site of one of the wonders of the ancient world while converting it into a base, the United Nations said in a new report. The site of the Hanging Gardens of ...

A group of archaeologists has successfully deciphered a4,000-year-old collection of cuneiform tablets that reveal ominous ...

Modern historiography has tended to assume that violence was the primary driving force behind the formation of the first ...

A discussion of the life and legacy of Cyrus the Great, who is said to have destroyed Babylon and enabled the ... Cultural Atlas of Mesopotamia and the Ancient Near East (Facts On File, 1990 ...

Researchers have identified an extensive Mesopotamian canal network that supplied ancient farms in the Eridu region with water from the Euphrates river before the first millennium B.C.

Archaeologists have uncovered a vast network of canals underneath the world’s oldest city in Mesopotamia, shedding more light on the rise of farming in the region. Researchers, led by ...

And somewhere, in whatever passed for a private moment in ancient Babylon, I like to think she rolled her eyes, took a deep breath, and wondered if there was enough barley wine in all of Mesopotamia ...

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 ...

A work of art rendering the Tower of Babel in ancient Babylon. Credit: ThomasThomas. CC BY-2.0/flickr The Tower of Babel, written about by the ancient Greek historian Herodotus, was said to “reach up ...