Emily Garthwaite / INSTITUTE On the west bank of the Tigris, less than a mile downriver from the town of Sherqat in northern Iraq ... director of the ancient city of Assur, which once thrived ...

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This 5,000-year-old tablet is believed to hold the world's first signature — and it's on a receipt for beer. Experts believe ...

Modern day Iraq corresponds roughly to the ancient kingdom of Mesopotamia. It was also part of the vast Ottoman Empire until British troops invaded in 1917. But the end of the First World War led ...

Photograph by Werner Forman, GTRES This story appears in the January/February 2017 issue of National Geographic History magazine ... in the 1800s in what is now Iraq. Later excavations, undertaken ...

wrote a scribe of ancient Sumer, portraying a dark time in the land that would become Iraq. That 4,000-year-old ... the first great multicultural kingdom in history. Though its rulers were often ...

A team of archaeologists in Iraq, led by Sebastian Rey, the British Museum’s curator of ancient Mesopotamia ... important period in Mesopotamian history—featuring charismatic kings such ...

A mobile "Heritage Vehicle" toured 22 areas in Nineveh, Iraq, offering youth workshops on Cuneiform, Ziggurat drawing, Iraqi ...

B Corp adventure travel company Wild Frontiers has launched a new group tour to Iraq, offering travellers the chance to ...

Researchers have discovered an extensive and remarkably well-preserved system of ancient irrigation canals in the Eridu ...

"Mheibes will go down in history for its very large fan base throughout Iraq." Passion for the game runs so deep that sometimes arguments erupt among players, even escalating into physical violence.