The Library of Congress traces the tradition of April Fools' pranks back to the Roman festival of Hilaria, celebrated the day ...

Priests, princes, or plenty? The only way to answer these questions is to dig deep, and this is what archaeologists have done for hundreds of years in the tall mounds of built-up mudbrick that are the ...

Perched on the edge of a river near the city of Siirt, Türkiye, is an archaeological site that offers a chance to completely ...

After the immense international success of "La Disparition de Josef Mengele", Olivier Guez returns with "Mesopotamia" – a novel about Gertrude Bell, a young lady from Victorian high society who became ...

The complex history of the Kurdish people, from nomadic tribes to modern-day struggles for autonomy and recognition.

The texts contain cuneiform symbols, an early writing system, and show the red tape of government bureaucracy dates back over ...

The finds, which also include dozens of clay sealings, contain details of a metric system used to measure resources, as well ...

Archaeologists from the British Museum and Iraq have uncovered over 200 4,000-year-old cuneiform tablets at Girsu, shedding light on the earliest known empire's complex bureaucracy.

Despite more than  200 years of archaeological discoveries that disprove this Creation Myth as just that - a myth, a ...

A symposium on Sumerian civilization and literature was recently held at Peking University, bringing together scholars and ...

The artifacts were excavated from a city dating back to the third millennium B.C.E. by researchers from Iraq and the British ...