Fires, dust storms, migration and conflict: the deadly chain of consequences from a shrinking wetland in Iran.

Just a few kilometers from Seville lies the archaeological site of Valencina de la Concepción, which five thousand years ago ...

Hope Dies Last, is the final installment in a trilogy by Alan Wesiman that also includes The World Without Us (2007) and ...

Plans to drill for oil in the protected Mesopotamian Marshes of southern Iraq have galvanized villagers and activists ...

Water has emerged as a new front for power and leverage in a region already burdened by war, political instability, and ...

Italian Mesopotamian historian Mario Liverani writes that Eridu’s temples were “reconstructed and expanded after each collapse, and their remains formed a raised platform on which new temples ...

(WBFF) — It's been one year since a ship collided with the Francis Scott Key Bridge, resulting in its collapse and the death of six construction workers. While investigations into the collapse ...

Federal transportation investigators say the collapse of the Francis Scott Key Bridge wasn't just *** tragedy. It was *** warning. They have identified dozens of bridges across the country that ...

NTSB Chairman Jennifer Homendy provided an update Thursday on the investigation into the contact of the containership Dali with the Key Bridge last year, causing its subsequent collapse.

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.

Joshua Hammer’s engaging new book, “The Mesopotamian Riddle,” chronicles the 1857 “race to decipher the world’s oldest writing.” There was no money on offer, but the challenge was a ...