Multimedia investigations across Africa and the Middle East highlight the links between environmental damage and public ...

Archaeologists involved in documenting the site described the volcanic rock surfaces as "among the earliest canvases of the human imagination," noting that every carved line—whether depicting animals, ...

Did you know that the history of pickles dates back over 4000 years? Even National Pickle Day, celebrated on November 14 th every year, dates back far longer than most of the random holidays I have ...

High above southeastern Turkey, a forgotten king’s dream of immortality has left behind huge stone figures, ancient myths, and a mysterious tomb carved into a windswept mountaintop.

Imagine a world without written records — no books, no laws, no way to document discoveries or communicate ideas across ...

UR/BABYLON, Iraq (Reuters) -Iraqi officials are sounding the alarm to save monuments of the cradle of civilisation, with thousands of years of history at risk of disappearing as Iraq's ancient ...

A team of researchers has used artificial intelligence to restore a 3,000-year-old Babylonian hymn inscribed on cuneiform ...

Ancient Tigris River tides, not royal canals, powered early farming and helped spark the first cities in Mesopotamia.

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Chogha Zanbil was first spotted from a surveillance airplane in 1935. The excavated complex was discovered to be one of the few ziggurats built outside Mesopotamia. The ruins of the ancient Elamite ...

(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 ...