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

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

Tides, rivers, and shifting coasts shaped Sumer, the world’s first urban society - offering lessons for today’s climate ...

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