In modern-day Turkey, a cemetery dating to the early Bronze Age holds burials full of luxurious goods—and numerous human sacrifices. Archaeologists have long been puzzled by the details of the ...

A roughly 4,800-year-old royal Mesopotamian cemetery in eastern Turkey appears to complicate existing theories about how some ...

Sumerian civilization appears to have evolved in Southern Mesopotamia around 4000 BC, while some historians place it as far ...

When a vast library of texts amassed by Mesopotamian King Ashurbanipal was burned to the ground about 2700 years ago, the clay tablets were preserved by the heat. Selena Wisnom's new book reveals more ...

Skeletons of sacrificed adolescents found at ancient Mesopotamian tomb (Başur Höyük Research Project/Cambridge Archaeological Journal 2025) Now, a new study published in the journal Cambridge ...

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 ...

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.