It took decades for archaeologists to realize this 3,500-year-old tablet depicts an ancient city at scale. But how did its ...

For the first time in three millennia, a Babylonian hymn that survived only as damaged cuneiform has been heard again as ...

Located in the Middle Euphrates region of Iraq, the archaeological site of Nippur is an ancient Mesopotamian city and contains several layers of superimposed urban settlement extending from 5000 BC to ...

The first ever recorded kiss happened 4,500 years ago, scientists have suggested, after discovering evidence which puts the ...

The earliest form of the signature came from ancient Iraq in the form of cylinder seals. Mesopotamians, the ancient ...

Ancient bricks from Mesopotamia have helped confirm a mysterious anomaly in Earth's magnetic field that occurred 3,000 years ago, a new study finds. Brickmakers baked the bricks, which were imprinted ...

Archaeologists uncovered a 5,000-year-old sacred plaza in Iraq that was used for rituals to appease a Mesopotamian warrior-god. The team working at the site in Telloh believe it was used for feasts, ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Papyrus disintegrates, parchment and paper burn, but clay tablets can survive fire — even the almighty ...

Katelyn has been a writer since they learned to hold a pencil, but was a latecomer to the world of gaming, gradually falling in love with video games over the course of high school and college. They ...

Labubu dolls have taken over the world, with celebrities including Rihanna, Cher and Kim Kardashian adorning them on handbags. The same dolls are now being linked to Pazuzu, a Mesopotamian demon, with ...