Researchers have discovered a large 5,000-year-old temple in northern Iraq, at the Kani Shaie site in Sulaymaniyah province.

When rolled on a moist clay tablet, these engravings left low-relief markings, signifying that the object's owner authorized ...

With low-lying areas around the world increasingly susceptible to flooding -- this at a time when population growth has necessitated the construction of more and more homes in such areas -- the ...

Thieves broke into the Louvre in Paris — the world's most visited museum — early Sunday morning. Museum officials said they stole jewelry and fled.

Lamassu are human-headed, eagle-winged, bulls or lions that once protected cities in Mesopotamia. They were believed to be very powerful creatures, and served both as a clear reminder of the king’s ...

In ancient times, Mesopotamia, meaning ‘land between two rivers’, was a vast region that lay between the Tigris and Euphrates river systems, and it is where civilization emerged over 7,000 years ago.

Leonard Woolley’s excavation of Ur yielded an archaeologist’s dream: a series of intact burials from one of the world's most important ancient cities. Dating from 2600-2300 B.C., a decorative bull's ...

The main character in the Epic of Gilgamesh, the ancient Uruk king is a likely candidate to have been the biblical king Nimrod. Credits: Kadumago, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons. Archaeologists in ...

Archaeologists in Iraq have uncovered what they say is the largest Assyrian winged bull ever recorded, a monumental sculpture nearly six meters tall that could redefine the scale of Mesopotamian art.