Traditional boats that once navigated Mesopotamian rivers are returning to Basra's waterways through a local heritage ...

Mesopotamia, located in the fertile valley between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers, was one of the cradles of civilization around 6000 years ago and the birthplace of the first writing system. Each ...

Cuneiform tablets from ancient Mesopotamia cover ... 2nd–1st century B.C.E., Mesopotamia, probably from Babylon. Photo: Sepia Times / Universal Images Group via Getty Images.

Among them was Nanni’s complaint. Dating from 1750 B.C., the palm-sized tablet is inscribed in Akkadian, the language spoken in ancient Mesopotamia at the time. Today, the tablet is part of the ...

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.

A new and spellbinding book tells the history of the very ancient past of Mesopotamia, the land between the rivers Euphrates and Tigris. Between Two Rivers by Moudhy Al-Rashid, a researcher at the ...

Dr Jaafar al Jotheri holds satellite images and explores the site of the ... The Battle of al-Qadisiyah was fought in Mesopotamia — in present-day Iraq — in the A.D. 630s between Arab Muslims ...

The Battle of al-Qadisiyah was fought in Mesopotamia — in present-day Iraq ... said the Cold War era satellite images are commonly used tools by archeologists working in the Middle East ...

Archaeologists have identified the site of an ancient battle in what is now Iraq by comparing historical accounts with declassified images from ... Muslim territory into Mesopotamia, Persia ...

The origins of writing in Mesopotamia lie in the images imprinted by ancient cylinder seals on clay tablets and other artifacts. A research group from the University of Bologna has identified a ...

The origins of writing in Mesopotamia lie in the images imprinted by ancient cylinder seals on clay tablets and other artifacts. A research group from the University of Bologna has identified a ...