which covers much of what is now Iraq. Ancient Mesopotamia has languished in obscurity, at least compared with the better-known Greek, Roman and Egyptian civilisations. So… Receive a weekly dose ...

A significant portion of human development and history may be traced back to the ancient civilization of Mesopotamia, in and ...

Mesopotamia was a historical region that included parts of modern-day Iraq, Syria, Turkey, Iran and Kuwait. "Mesopotamia" is ...

A provocative new theory suggests that the original Garden of Eden may not have been in Mesopotamia, roughly modern-day Iraq ... believed that Eden was located in Iraq, where the Tigris and ...

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 cuneiform tablet from the 6th century BC shows an aerial view map of Mesopotamia ... modern-day Iraq — and what the Babylonians believed lay beyond the known world at the time. The ancient ...

The origins of writing in Mesopotamia lie in the images imprinted by ancient cylinder seals ... emerged in the city of Uruk, located in what is now southern Iraq, around 3000 BCE.

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 ...

Three views of the Head of a ruler, Mesopotamia, Iraq, ca. 2300–2000 BCE. Credit: Anna-Marie Kellen / The Metropolitan Museum of Art A recent study of an ancient Mesopotamian ... role in holding the ...