Leonard Woolley’s discovery of intact Mesopotamian royal tombs dating back more than 4,000 years in the ancient city of Ur, located 140 miles southeast of Babylon in modern-day Iraq. The tombs ...

The framework application that comes with AGON - Ancient Games Of Nations is a virtual ... found two of these game boards in the city of Ur. There is evidence that The Royal Game of Ur was the ...

Ancient records suggest that more than 4,000 years ago, at a time when the city of Ur (in what is now southern Iraq) was the center of an empire, Babylon was a provincial administration center and ...

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

Near the present-day city of Basra in Iraq, and about 12 kilometers southwest of the site of ancient Ur, is the site of Eridu (Eridug in Sumerian), the southernmost of all the great Mesopotamian ...

A scarab beetle set in gold shows that ancient Egyptians thought the heart was the most important organ in the human body.

BAGHDAD, March 10 (Reuters) - The bell of a new church built near Iraq's ancient city of Ur chimed for the first time last week as part of a push to lure back pilgrims to a country that is home to ...