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

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

TEHRAN - UNESCO’s General Conference on Thursday adopted a resolution recognizing the Cyrus Cylinder as one of the world’s ...

The building discovered at the Kani Shaie archaeological site may have been a cultural hub over 5,000 years ago.

Auriga is often gets overshadowed by other winter constellations such as the mighty hunter Orion or the Zodiac star-patterns ...

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

New research shows that the rise of Sumer was deeply tied to the tidal and sedimentary dynamics of ancient Mesopotamia. Early ...

There are three main reasons why waiting until marriage is naive and outdated; the importance of sexual compatibility, ...

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Mesopotamians, the ancient inhabitants of the land between the Euphrates and Tigris ...

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