A heated exchange erupted in the House of Representatives today after Mesopotamia Area Representative Lee Mark Chang ...

The search for the waters of eternal life has fascinated figures from Gilgamesh to the conquistadors to Hollywood studio ...

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Consequently, they were sent from their battalion duties in India on a special tour of Mesopotamia. Their performances must have brought laughter, music, and a slice of home to fellow British ...

Emerging from communities on the banks of the Tigris, in present-day Iraq, the Assyrians had conquered Babylon and Egypt and ruled in the Mesopotamian region from around 1300-600 B.C. At the dig ...

Terms of Service and Privacy Policy. A roughly 4,800-year-old royal Mesopotamian cemetery in eastern Turkey appears to complicate existing theories about how some ...

A team of archaeologists in Iraq, led by Sebastian Rey, the British Museum’s curator of ancient Mesopotamia, has uncovered compelling evidence of the empire’s formidable bureaucracy.

Scholarly and public fascination with the ancient culture of Mesopotamia had been steadily growing since the latter part of the 19th century. It was in December 1872 that an Assyriologist ...

To play their replica lyre, they needed music, so they turned to Kilmer, an international authority on ancient Sumerian and Mesopotamian music. Through her British colleagues, Kilmer was ...

Archaeologist and scholar Giorgio Buccellati’s book At the Origins of Politics describes how Mesopotamia’s urban revolution in the late fourth millennium BC shaped a new mentality.

A new and spellbinding book tells the history of the very ancient past of Mesopotamia, the land between the rivers Euphrates and Tigris. Between Two Rivers by Moudhy Al-Rashid, a researcher at the ...