Archaeologists in Iraq have discovered the remains of a 5,000-year-old building that might have been used as a "cultic space" or temple for worship.

A team of archaeologists in the Kurdistan region of Iraq announced the discovery of a massive archaeological building dating ...

Archaeologists uncover a monumental 5,000-year-old building in Mesopotamia’s Kani Shaie, revealing Uruk’s cultural reach.

“Through studies on the strata, we learned that the traces date back to the Uruk period in the fourth millennium B.C. The strata show that writing was being developed in Khuzestan at the same time as ...

The exhibition invites visitors to take a walk through the world’s first megacity. Not only was writing invited in Uruk over 5000 years ago; the basis for today’s urban living was also laid there.

Being paid in beer might be a dream for some people, but it was a reality for many workers in ancient times. And there's living proof that beer was an accepted pay for labor: A 5,000-year-old document ...

A study reveals that Sumer, the cradle of civilization, rose because of natural tidal irrigation that shaped the world’s ...

The world's oldest surviving work of literature begins and ends with a wall: the rampart of Uruk-the-Sheepfold, great city of ancient Mesopotamia. "View its parapet that none could copy!" reads Andrew ...