Mesopotamia ... Nabonidus, is now known to modern historians as “the archaeologist king.” A learned man, he restored the region’s ancient architectural and cultural traditions, especially ...

Archaeologists working at a long-buried city in northern Iraq ... of modern life began in Mesopotamia. Now, thanks to these efforts, people in the north are finally getting their place in that ...

The discoveries came to light during excavations in the ancient Assyrian city of Nimrud, located in what is now northern ... Mesopotamia—a historic region centered on modern-day Iraq.

The pyramids date back to roughly 2600 B.C., more than 1,000 years after the first chapter of Genesis takes place ... and Tigris rivers run through modern-day Iraq. The expert claims, after ...

Chichén Itzá, "the mouth of the well of the Itzás," was likely the most important city in the Yucatán from the 10th to the 12th centuries. Evidence indicates that the site was first settled as ...