When rolled on a moist clay tablet, these engravings left low-relief markings, signifying that the object’s owner authorized ...

Archaeologists have recently unearthed a 5,000-year-old cultic space at the site of Kani Shaie in Iraq. This monumental building, deeply connected to ancient Uruk, one of the world’s first cities, ...

Researchers have discovered a large 5,000-year-old temple in northern Iraq, at the Kani Shaie site in Sulaymaniyah province.

Climate change and rising salinity threaten Iraq's ancient cities like Ur and Babylon, imperiling thousands of years of ...

In their paper, “Exploring Geomagnetic Variations in Ancient Mesopotamia,” researchers Matthew D. Howland, Lisa Tauxu, Shai Gordin, and Erez Ben-Yosef studied 32 bricks currently held in the Slemani ...

Archaeologists uncovered a 5,000-year-old sacred plaza in Iraq that was used for rituals to appease a Mesopotamian warrior-god. The team working at the site in Telloh believe it was used for feasts, ...

The war in Iraq is taking place around the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers, what archaeologists call the cradle of Western civilization. The historic rivers flow into the Mesopotamian marshes, which ...

Katelyn has been a writer since they learned to hold a pencil, but was a latecomer to the world of gaming, gradually falling in love with video games over the course of high school and college. They ...

Ancient bricks inscribed with the names of Mesopotamian kings have yielded important insights into a mysterious anomaly in Earth’s magnetic field 3,000 years ago, according to a new study involving ...