Step back in time to explore one of the world’s earliest and most influential civilizations: Ancient Mesopotamia. What was ...

Learn how the first civilization in Mesopotamia depended on tides and how it responded when faced with a major environmental ...

A newly published study challenges long-held assumptions about the origins of urban civilization in ancient Mesopotamia, ...

Historian Selena Wisnom reveals how the ancient Assyrians of Mesopotamia used ‘godnapping’ as a devastating form of ...

Ancient Mesopotamia refers to a region within the Middle East, primarily between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers, where several large and powerful civilizations thrived for thousands of years ...

Historian Selena Wisnom explores how Ashurbanipal, the last great ruler of Assyria, combined calculated brutality with an ...

About 3,000 years ago in ancient Mesopotamia, brickmakers imprinted the names of their kings into clay bricks. Now, an analysis of the metal grains in those bricks has confirmed a mysterious ...

“She Who Wrote,” an exhibition at the Morgan Library, explores the world of an ancient Mesopotamian priestess who wrote with a strikingly personal voice.

Researchers revealed their findings on the "ancient history of kissing" in Mesopotamian societies, in an article published in Science.