R esearchers have now decoded a Babylonian tablet, which is thought to be the oldest map of the world. It was created between ...

Around 2,500 years ago, a princess living in what is now modern-day Iraq collected a number of artefacts, including a statue, ...

Between Two Rivers Moudhy Al-Rashid (Hachette (UK, 20 February); W. W. Norton (US, 12 August)). A new and spellbinding book tells the history of the very ancient past of Mesopotamia, the land ...