Excavations on unpromising mounds in the Iraqi desert revealed Sumer’s earliest city. Surviving relics and a rebuilt temple ...

Their revolutionary innovation, their irrigation system, was the seed of their civilization’s slow decline and eventual collapse. Over time, various empires emerged in Mesopotamia, each leaving ...

The salinity and water scarcity have devastated local ecosystems, leading to the mass death of buffalo herds, a sharp decline ...

It is one of the oldest and greatest stores of knowledge: a vast library of texts amassed by Assyrian King Ashurbanipal, who ruled ancient Mesopotamia about 2700 years ago. But after his death ...

What does it take to decipher an extinct writing system? If Joshua Hammer’s new book The Mesopotamian Riddle: An archaeologist, a soldier, a clergyman, and the race to decipher the world’s ...