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

Researchers say verifying the structure's monumentality could transform understanding of early Mesopotamian exchange, revealing how sites like Shaie linked distant regions.

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

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

“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 ...

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

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.

The origins of writing in ancient Mesopotamia and beyond may rest on a group of cylindrical seals. A team of archeologists from the University of Bologna in Italy has identified a series of ...

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 ...

https://doi.org/10.2307/530641 • https://www.jstor.org/stable/530641 Copy URL Hacinebi Tepe, a small site along the Euphrates River in southern Turkey, has two ...