Sirwan Regional ProjectBeer drinking cups being excavated at Khani Masi. Scientists have long known that beer played an ...

Mesopotamia, with its dense network of ancient ... "The presence of writing, monumental architecture, and other administrative artifacts in the lower town palace further supports this ...

Recent discoveries challenge ideas of a sharp divide between the haves and have-nots in ancient Mesopotamia, suggesting a larger middle class than previously thought.

One of three stone tablets found in northeastern Iraq that may reveal more information about Mesopotamian life ... letters from the region in the Syrian archaeological site of Mari that mention ...

Iraq recovered stolen artifacts from Japan and Switzerland, marking a significant step in preserving the country's rich ...

The archaeological cities of Uruk and Ur and the Tell Eridu archaeological site form part of the remains of the Sumerian cities and settlements that developed in southern Mesopotamia between the 4th ...

Founded in the 3rd millennium B.C. along a key trade route connecting the Iranian plateau to Central Anatolia, Ashur grew in ...

The Kuwaiti-Polish Archaeological Mission plans to continue studying the site, and hopes to find "further discoveries and insights into the intersection of the Arabian Neolithic and Mesopotamian ...

already mentioned in Mesopotamian cuneiform sources ca. 2600 B.C. and secondly because of the nature of the area as terra incognita, practically unexplored by archaeological means.