Rashid's must-read, millennia-spanning history, cleverly wrought from tablets written in the world's oldest script ...

The Bronze Age was a period of intensive contacts in the Levant, Egypt, Mesopotamia and southern Europe. It rapidly developed ...

may provide a wealth of knowledge about this Middle Bronze Age city and shed light on the more hidden history of Mesopotamia. The clay tablets are the first of their kind found in the region and ...

Polish officials recently announced the discovery of an unusual alien-like clay head, which dates back to the Ubaid period of ancient Mesopotamia. Pottery was also found at the site.

So, the first question driving an intriguing, though controversial, new study was: “Did seal imagery contribute significantly to the invention of signs in the first writing in the region?” ...

Mesopotamia, a region that includes all of modern-day Iraq as well as parts of Syria, Turkey and Iran, formed a significant part of the Fertile Crescent. Located between the Tigris and Euphrates ...

While Mesopotamia's southern cities like Uruk have ... The research at Kurd Qaburstan is supported by the Kurdistan region and funded by the US National Science Foundation. Researchers intend ...

Cosmos Magazine reports that analysis of DNA samples taken from 118 sheep bones unearthed at archaeological sites in Europe ...

A significant portion of human development and history may be traced back to the ancient civilisation of Mesopotamia and the Kurd Qaburstan site, which is located in the Erbil region of northeast ...