Iraq's Embassy in Ankara has officially received 6 ancient Mesopotamian clay tablets from Turkey in a ceremony, part of ...

This is Mesopotamia, often called the “Birthplace of Civilization.” Thousands of years ago, in what is now modern-day Iraq, some of the earliest human societies began to flourish here.

Beneath the rugged mountains of southeastern Iran, archaeologists are carefully unearthing traces of a Bronze Age society ...

Babylon, the ancient Mesopotamian civilization, existed from roughly 2000 B.C. to 540 B.C.

Mesopotamia is a land of many firsts. ... Many different peoples, cultures, civilizations and empires flourished in Mesopotamia throughout history. Famous examples include the Sumerians, ...

The author, a historian brings to life the world of ancient Mesopotamia and the city of Babylon, tracing their rise from a loose federation to a monarchy to the rise of ancient Sumerian civilization, ...

As Iraq fitfully rebuilds, a groundbreaking exhibition is showcasing that nation’s rich roots in Mesopotamia, the region that gave birth to the world’s first urban civilization some 5,000 ...

Marked with the administrative details of government, the tablets have illuminated the complicated bureaucracy of an ancient Mesopotamian civilization. The tablets were discovered in the Sumerian ...

"One of the most important ancient sites of the Mesopotamian civilization," according to Kassim, Nimrud is a testament to a golden age of "the art and architecture of the Assyrian civilization." ...

In his new book “Assyria: The Rise and Fall of the World’s First Empire” (Basic Books), Yale professor Eckart Frahm offers a comprehensive history of the ancient civilization (circa 2025 BCE to 609 ...