A newly spotlighted artifact from ancient Mesopotamia is offering a rare window into how one of the world’s earliest civilizations imagined the Earth. Known as the Imago Mundi, this Babylonian ...

Language has always been more than communication, it’s how civilizations preserved their culture, beliefs, and history.

This statue covered in gold leaf and semiprecious stones may have been used in ancient Mesopotamian sunrise rituals.

With Iraq currently in the world's spotlight, trace its beginnings in Mesopotamia - its name in ancient times. Mesopotamia has been called the 'cradle of civilisation' because agriculture, animal ...

Gunpowder has been used for centuries, but did you know that the Chinese invented it by complete accident? Here's everything ...

A learned man, he restored the region’s ancient architectural and cultural traditions, especially those from the Akkadian Empire, which had dominated Mesopotamia in the third millennium B.C.—a ...

New research shows how trade rooted in local resource differences and the conflicts it sparked, made ancient Greek ...

Pazuzu was one of many ancient Mesopotamian supernatural beings that blurred the line between god and monster. Historian Dr ...

Taxation has shaped civilisation from ancient Mesopotamia to modern Australia. Understanding its long history sheds light on ...

A team of archaeologists in Iraq, led by Sebastian Rey, the British Museum’s curator of ancient Mesopotamia, has uncovered compelling evidence of the empire’s formidable bureaucracy.

This is the first time that major deities have been found depicted on a relief from an ancient Assyrian palace.