The story of how the first cities rose from southern Mesopotamia has long fascinated scientists and historians. Many ...

The British Museum’s ongoing Girsu Project discovered the true function of a mysterious structure - British Museum/Dr Sebastien Rey Ancient Sumerians invented a “civilisation-saving” water channel ...

WRESTLING, mankind’s oldest and most basic form of recreational combat, traces its origins back to the dawn of civilization.

Ancient warnings from texts like the Sumerian King List and Hopi prophecies reveal cyclical disaster patterns that could help you prepare for future global catastrophes.

On the bitter plains of modern Iraq there remain large piles of baked bricks covered with much sand. They have sat there in silent witness to a lost religion for 4,000 years. Only in the 19th century ...

An ancient civilization that ruled Mesopotamia nearly 4,000 years ago was likely wiped out because of disastrous dust storms, a new study suggests. The Akkadian Empire, which ruled what is now Iraq ...

To reopen Wednesday after a yearlong closure during the COVID-19 pandemic, the Getty Villa has at last unveiled “Mesopotamia: Civilization Begins.” The show, originally scheduled to open in March 2020 ...