A system of thousands of ridges and canals across a floodplain in southern Iraq has long been believed to be the remnant of a ...

The enslaved people carried out a famous large-scale revolt in Iraq in 869 AD under the Abbasid state, known today as the ...

Archaeologists excavate the site of the ancient Sumerian city of Eridu, near Basra in southern Iraq, in 2022 ... on the earliest phases of Mesopotamian history. Excavations at Eridu have uncovered ...

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

One of three stone tablets found in northeastern Iraq that may reveal ... of Kurd Qaburstan is the ancient city of regional capital Qabra, but much of the city’s history remains hidden, aside ...

A significant portion of human development and history may be traced back to the ancient civilization of Mesopotamia, in and around present-day Iraq. The study of these new tablets could reveal ...

In a vibrant Baghdad district, labourers are working tirelessly to repair the centuries-old shrine of a revered rabbi in an ...

By John Lee. With the TIR system now live in Iraq since April 2025, the Minister of Transport and industry leaders officially ...

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 ...

Archaeologists have uncovered new evidence about an ancient Mesopotamian landscape, offering fresh insight into the legacy of ...

Baghdad: Iraq has announced the discovery of an ancient city dating back to the ... of the most important sites that sheds light on the history of the region and its development in the early ...