Explore Mesopotamian archaeology, from cities and temples to daily life and culture.
Archaeologists working in southern Iraq have identified the site of Alexandria on the Tigris, a large port city founded in ...
Archaeologists and geologists have identified a deliberately placed layer of sand beneath the foundations of the Ishtar Temple in Assur, ...
A new study examines how divine sanctuaries fit into medical practice in ancient Mesopotamia. Troels Arbøll analyzed cuneiform prescriptions from ...
A new study published by archaeologists presents two inscribed clay cylinders that bear direct textual evidence of King Nebuchadnezzar II's ...
A team of archaeologists excavating in the north of Iraq has uncovered evidence showing how different religious communities existed and ...
A recent study published in the Journal of World Prehistory suggests that the earliest botanical paintings made by human civilization ...
by Serdar Yalçin -- The earliest form of the signature came from ancient Iraq in the form of cylinder seals. ...
A monumental structure has been discovered in northern Iraq by archaeologists, dating back 5,000 years and potentially rewriting how the ...
Archaeologists have unearthed an extraordinary Assyrian inscription from the First Temple period in Jerusalem—the first of its kind to be ...
Archaeologists in northern Iraq have unearthed the largest lamassu ever found, a massive winged bull with a human head that ...
