Did you know Damascus, Syria, has been home to people for about 3000 B.C.E.? Today, it has a population of around 2.6 million ...
Two decades after US military invasion left it spiraling out of control, a more stable Iraq is beginning to attract ...
In Mosul, guests visit local charities involved in the lengthy demining process, who explain the danger of unexploded bombs and provide updates on which areas of the city ... Ur, home to a ...
in the city of Nagsu on the Iturungal canal. On the fifth day he set up ... in the shrine Ili-tappe. He captured Ur-Ninazu (and) Nabi-Enlil, generals whom he (Tirigan) had sent as envoys to the land ...
The first convert Avram made was a neighbor named Eved Shemesh from the city of Damascus, He was a sun worshiper. Once, when Eved Shemesh got a bad sunburn, Avram asked him if the sun god was angry at ...
Until modern geopolitics sapped its vibrancy, Tell el-Muqayyar and its surrounding towns were hotbeds of academic activity and tourism since the ancient Sumerian city of Ur existed there circa 3,800 ...
In the dusty city states of ancient Mesopotamia, long before the advent ... including the Code of Ur-Nammu (c. 2100–2050 BCE), the oldest known law code surviving today. While the researchers ...
THE Sumerians they were a sedentary population of the ancient world, lived in Mesopotamia (present-day Iraq) over the ...