Mesopotamian warfare was waged between rival city-states such as Ur, Lagash and Umma during earlier periods, and later ...

From tail-wagging agents of battle to divine deities, ancient Mesopotamia’s civilisations saw dogs as more than just pets.

A rock art panel near Aswan, Egypt, may depict a rare example of an elite individual from the First Dynasty, shedding light on the formation of the ancient Egyptian state.

Introduction History is not simply the story of what happened mdash;it is the memory of how power was used, values encoded, ...

Kings and Generals’ historical animated series returns with a deep dive into the origins of commerce in the ancient world.

For the first time, scientists have sequenced the full genome of a 4,800-year-old Egyptian man. The DNA reveals North African ...

Ancient DNA has revealed a genetic link between the cultures of ancient Egypt and Mesopotamia, according to research ...

That geological legacy laid the groundwork for lapis’ role in adornment, which stretches back to antiquity. As early as the third millennium BC, Mesopotamian rulers carved cylinder seals and ...

Ca. 2300–2000 b.c. The head likely depicts a Mesopotamian ruler and is one of the earliest known life-size lost-wax metal sculptures to survive. It had been thought that the head was virtually ...

American archaeologists working in Iraq have uncovered a massive, extremely rare carving which depicts King Ashurbanipal of Nineveh, former ruler of the Assyrian Empire.

For decades, Dilmun was known only through ancient texts. However, archaeological missions that began in the late 19th century culminating in groundbreaking Danish excavations in the 1950s confirmed ...

In the Mesopotamian world, the gods owned the cities, and humans did their bidding at the behest of kings.