Ancient Mesopotamia, the region roughly encompassing modern-day Iraq, Kuwait and parts of Syria, Iran and Turkey, gave us what we could consider some of the earliest known literary “superheroes”.

Clemens Reichel, one of the exhibit’s curators and an expert on ancient ... Mesopotamia is set to open to the public on June 22, and runs until Jan. 5, 2014. Play the audio files under the ...

The discoveries shed new light on life in ancient Mesopotamia. Examples of the cuneiform ... identifying the user and leaving an impression of the images onto wet clay when rolled across the ...

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 ...