The Erbil Civilization Museum, which houses rare artifacts dating back thousands of years, from the Stone Age to the Sumerian, Assyrian, and Islamic periods, stands as a testament to the historical ...

Sebastien Rey, a curator at the British Museum and an expert on ancient Mesopotamian civilisation ... Recent digging at this major archaeological site has shown that it was left untouched ...

The world’s oldest map unlocks secrets from 3,000 years ago revealing how our ancestors understood the world. The Babylonian ...

The Kuwaiti-Polish Archaeological Mission plans to continue studying the site, and hopes to find "further discoveries and insights into the intersection of the Arabian Neolithic and Mesopotamian ...

Recent discoveries challenge ideas of a sharp divide between the haves and have-nots in ancient Mesopotamia, suggesting a ...

Mesopotamia, with its dense network of ancient ... "The presence of writing, monumental architecture, and other administrative artifacts in the lower town palace further supports this ...

This headdress is just one of numerous artifacts discovered in 1934 in the lavish grave of a woman who lived during the ...

Credit: Tiffany Earley-Spadoni The archaeological site of Kurd Qaburstan, located in the Erbil region of northeastern Iraq, has emerged as an invaluable source of knowledge about the Middle Bronze Age ...

A recent analysis of beads discovered in the ancient city of Hama, Syria, has revealed that some were crafted from Baltic ...

The precious pre-Islamic artifacts destroyed by the jihadists are now in pieces, but the archaeologists working in Nimrud are undaunted by the colossal task they face ...