A collection of artefacts collected 2,500 years ago in modern-day Iraq reveal the forgotten world of Mesopotamia, home to ...

The Bible tells of a fateful encounter between an Egyptian Pharaoh and a King of Judah at "Armageddon". Archaeologists found ...

The oldest known recipe, however, dates back thousands of years to ancient Mesopotamia, offering a fascinating glimpse into ...

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

TEHRAN - Dehloran, as one of the significant regions in western Iran, has been settled in prehistoric times and contains ...

the Sumerian tablet was first uncovered at the site of the city of Uruk located in ancient Mesopotamia, which is in present-day Iraq. It was part of the private Schøyen Collection, a collection of ...

Credit: Arbyreed / CC BY-NC-SA 2.0 A UMass Amherst graduate student may have accidentally created a mysterious liquid that defies scientific laws – and seems strangely devoted to the shape of ancient ...

Jin Hongjun explains tree protection under an ancient cypress at Zhongyue Temple in Dengfeng. WU YANBO/CHINA DAILY Tree healer Jin Hongjun, 55, vividly recalls the painstaking efforts to save ...

Ancient beliefs, behaviors and norms—what archaeologists call culture—were fundamentally integrated into technological solutions in this part of Peru in ancient times. Isolating and removing ...

These findings indicate that contact between ancient communities on both sides ... Arabian Gulf region consisted of trade items such as pottery, beads and metal objects that included knives ...

Writing and trade are deeply intertwined, and some of the oldest surviving cuneiform writing was used in ancient Mesopotamia to keep records of the buying and selling of goods. In ancient ...

The researchers have also estimated that construction on the theater began around the 4th century B.C.E., when ancient Lefkada was experiencing economic prosperity. “Although damaged by time ...