Rashid's must-read, millennia-spanning history, cleverly wrought from tablets written in the world's oldest script ...

Modern day Iraq corresponds roughly to the ancient kingdom of Mesopotamia. It was also part of the vast Ottoman Empire until British troops invaded in 1917. But the end of the First World War led ...

now modern-day Iraq. So, the first question driving an intriguing, though controversial, new study was: “Did seal imagery contribute significantly to the invention of signs in the first writing ...

In the mid-1960s, a Soviet military topographer was analyzing aerial photos of Ukraine when he came across some unusual shadows. Looking closely at the patterns of plants in a number of fields, he ...

African slaves ended up as sailors in Persia, pearl divers in the Gulf, soldiers in the Omani army and workers on the salt pans of Mesopotamia (modern Iraq). Many people were domestic slaves ...

A significant portion of human development and history may be traced back to the ancient civilization of Mesopotamia, in and around present-day Iraq. The study of these new tablets could reveal ...

Life in the ancient Bronze Age city of Kurd Qaburstan, an ancient Mesopotamian site in present-day ... Mesopotamia and the Kurd Qaburstan site, which is located in the Erbil region of northeast Iraq.