British Museum researchers have gained great understanding of the people, their beliefs and dominance in the region through researching the tablet. They say that Mesopotamia ia at the bottom middle of ...

Cuneiform, considered to be the oldest known writing system, was developed by the Sumerians of Mesopotamia (an ancient region centered on modern-day Iraq) more than 5,000 years ago. The script used ...

Cities are undoubtedly at the core of our civilization, from the earliest traces of urban settlements built over 6,000 years ...

Multiple governments advise against travel to Iraq for security reasons, yet the country is luring adventurers and the curious.

The diversity of biblical options is as old as the Bible itself. For 2000 years, Christians have been making choices about ...

At an archaeological excavation site in western Syria, Schwartz unearthed a “finger-length” clay cylinder with etched letters ...

This further cements the ancient age of the area as Mesopotamian culture is considered the first ... It then flows southeast through the foothills and the Piedmont plateau region before entering South ...

TEHRAN - Archaeologists working at Qeshlaq Tappeh, a site partially submerged by the Talvar Dam in Iran’s western province of ...

Muazzez Ilmiye Cig, an internationally acclaimed Turkish scholar on ancient Sumeria, died on Sunday at the age of 110. Cig, ...

Declassified 1970s-era U.S. spy satellite imagery has led a British-Iraqi archeological team to what they believe is the site ...

Declassified 1970s-era U.S. spy satellite imagery has led a British-Iraqi archeological team to what they believe is the site ...