Excavations on unpromising mounds in the Iraqi desert revealed Sumer’s earliest city. Surviving relics and a rebuilt temple ...

First up is city living because this Uruk ... Euphrates rivers met was called the Sumer. Ancient Sumer was in the southern part of a place called Mesopotamia. Most of the area now falls in ...

Yet to historians and archaeologists, Babylon is a real bricks-and-mortar place at the center of the vibrant Mesopotamian culture ... Babylon’s prestige. No ancient city was so desired and ...

A sprawling, hidden network of ancient irrigation canals has been uncovered near the ancient city of Eridu in southern ...

Archaeologists working at a long-buried city ... Mesopotamia’s hidden story. The site, Kurd Qaburstan, sits in the Erbil region and may have once been the powerful city of Qabra, referenced in ...

in New York City, through August 17. The exhibition focuses attention on the distinctive style and far-reaching influence of the art created by the Sumerians of lower Mesopotamia, a people who ...

Cuneiform tablets from ancient Babylon cover a range of topics, from exorcising ghosts to uncovering the location of Noah’s ...

Humans started counting tens of thousands of years ago, but when did they begin figuring out advanced arithmetic, algebra and ...