The ten statues in Founding Figures: Copper Sculpture from Ancient Mesopotamia, ca. 3300–2000 BC at the Morgan Library & Museum in Manhattan were never meant for our eyes.

Long, long ago and far, far away in a country called Mesopotamia (meaning “land between rivers”) many aspects of civilization as we know it today took shape. That crescent between the T… ...

The need to preserve ancient works of art gained added importance in light of their wholesale destruction by Islamic State.

A design on a piece of pottery in early Mesopotamian art showing four goats chasing about in a circle gradually was transformed, in later work, into an abstract Maltese cross. On the other hand ...

Richly illustrated with more than 400 full-color photographs, Art of Mesopotamia is an astounding record by award-winning author Zainab Bahrani of artworks from this region, many of which have in ...

LA’s Getty Villa Exhibits Treasures From Ancient Mesopotamia The need to preserve ancient works of art gained added importance in light of their wholesale destruction by Islamic State ...

Archaeology & History A Trove of 500 Ancient Babylonian Treasures Was Just Unearthed The discoveries shed new light on life in ancient Mesopotamia.