Archaeologists revealed how America's earliest civilization survived a deadly climate shift 4,200 years ago by relocating and ...

Archaeologists have traced the earliest lock-and-key mechanism back to ancient Mesopotamia around 4,000 BCE. Made from wood ...

Back in the day, Ancient Mesopotamia was the place to be. Considering the geographical area of some of humanity’s most ...

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 ...

Saint Isaac of Nineveh withdrew into solitude, not out of contempt for the world, but to rediscover its divine beauty through prayer. His emphasis on silence and stillness as pathways to understanding ...

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

New research reveals Sumer’s cities may have risen with the tides, rewriting the origin story of the world’s first ...

There are a total of seven bedrooms available to rent in the Old Stone House Bed and Breakfast, first built in 1815.

Tiamat is an ambiguous deity who played an important role in the creation myth of ancient Mesopotamia. She was their personification of the primordial sea, from which the first generation of gods were ...