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 ...

A majority of the Assyrian population today is spread across the diaspora with no nation-state of their own. The exodus of the Assyrian population comes from ongoing efforts to erase the indigenous ...

The exhibition showcases Mesopotamia's innovations including the method of counting and measurement which led to the system of dividing hours and minutes into 60. "The Mesopotamian civilisation had ...

The area covered by Mesopotamia translates into present-day Iraq, and so the nearly 1,400 objects on display -- dating from 150,000 BC to AD 650 -- have taken on new significance since the war ...

The Bible was talking about a real paradise on Earth when it mentions the garden – a divine equivalent to the riverine landscapes of southern Mesopotamia in modern-day Iraq.

The Getty Villa ends its yearlong pandemic closure on Wednesday. On view: “Mesopotamia: Civilization Begins,” which goes back to the beginning, sort of.

British Turkish novelist Elif Shafak's twelfth novel is already a bestseller.

A newly published study in PLOS ONE, Morphodynamic Foundations of Sumer,challenges long-held assumptions about the origins of urban civilization in ancient Mesopotamia, suggesting that the rise of ...