Ancient Babylonian world map from a clay tablet, nearly 3,000 years old, reveals a version of the Noah's Ark story and mythical lands.

Rashid’s book is as much a people’s history of Mesopotamia as it is a history of objects, great personages and notable events ...

Around 4000 years ago, in the land between the rivers Tigris and Euphrates, Ancient Mesopotamia developed the first written language of the world. On view until June 2020, the “Ancient Mesopotamia ...

Leonard Woolley’s excavation of Ur yielded an archaeologist’s dream: a series of intact burials from one of the world's most important ancient cities. Dating from 2600-2300 B.C., a decorative bull's ...

Mesopotamia some 6000 years ago, one of the cradle of civilizations and the birthplace of the first writing system. In the fertile valley between the Rivers Tigris and Euphrates the earliest cities ...

Is the Smithsonian Weaseling Out from White House Questions? Both Parties Need to Get Serious About the Population Crisis The Breakfast Club’s Nostalgia and Anxiety I Need to Stop Watching These ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Is your knowledge of the ancient Near East as solid as a cuneiform tablet, or will this "cradle ...

When was the first kiss? Recent papers have suggested that romantic or sexual kissing began 3,500 years ago in what is now India. But a new review paper in the journal Science says that this style of ...

The first ever recorded kiss happened 4,500 years ago, scientists have suggested, after discovering evidence which puts the ...

This is a companion volume and sequel to Early Mesopotamia and Iran: Contact and Conflict, c. 3500-1600 BC. "Funded by a gift from Raymond and Beverly Sackler." Published for the Trustees of the ...