When rolled on a moist clay tablet, these engravings left low-relief markings, signifying that the object’s owner authorized the written document. In this respect, a cylinder seal’s impression is the ...

Mesopotamians, the ancient inhabitants of the land between the Euphrates and Tigris rivers, are credited for many firsts in human history, including writing, urbanism and the state. Among these ...

Archaeologists uncover a monumental 5,000-year-old building in Mesopotamia’s Kani Shaie, revealing Uruk’s cultural reach.

Louvre Abu Dhabi is celebrating eight years since its opening as French authorities continue to investigate the theft in ...

A monumental 5,000-year-old cultic space unearthed in Iraq may redefine how archaeologists understand the earliest urban societies and their spiritual foundations.

The Iraqi cultural attache in London formally informed the ministry about the seizure of the 185 artifacts. Archaeological ...

Archaeologists found a 4,000-year-old copper crown in a Dead Sea cave, revealing early ritual life and social structure in Chalcolithic Levant.

Imagine stumbling upon a piece of genuine history while doing something totally mundane, like cleaning out your garage or ...

The expansion of Ancient Greeks into Assyria between the 9th and the 7th centuries BC occurred through mercenary warfare and ...

In today’s era, foreign trade constitutes an important component that paves the way for the progress of any nation. The basis ...

Archaeologists working near Temple Mount in Jerusalem were exploring a pile of earth from an ancient drainage canal. They found a few artifacts, including a seemingly unimportant broken piece of ...

A monumental structure, whose foundations date back to the dawn of urbanization in the Fertile Crescent, has been unearthed at the Kani Shaie site in the Kurdistan region of northeastern Iraq (in the ...