The latest findings cast light on the history of a major civilization that is considered to be one of the world's first ...

Iraqi forces retook control of the site of ancient Nimrud, and since then, reconstruction efforts have been taking place in ...

jewelry and musical objects. These experiments charted a course for Yousif to explore the achievements and legacies of other prominent Mesopotamian women such as Enheduanna—history’s first ...

In the UAE, a multidisciplinary team has brought the region’s ancient maritime history to life by reconstructing a working ...

Despite previous excavations led by the English archaeologist Sir Austen Henry Layard and then by British archaeologist Sir ...

Scattered around the sites of ancient Mesopotamia are thousands of devices called cylinder seals. They are equal parts stamp, credit card, and jewelry. They were how people signed for things and ...

A Johns Hopkins archaeologist recycles a 20-year-old hypothesis that small clay cylinders found in an ancient tomb reset the ...

Assyria was a major civilization of ancient Mesopotamia—a historic region ... carved ivory and jewelry. The wide range of object types, materials and artistic styles reflect the wealth of ...

Bahra 1 is recognized as the oldest and largest known settlement on the Arabian Peninsula, dating to around 5500 to 4900 BC, and is among the oldest and largest known prehistoric settlements in the ...

They built stone structures, herded livestock, fished and dived for pearls, crafted jewelry, and developed ... trade route that connected Mesopotamia, in what is now Iraq, to the Indus Valley ...

Controversy over whether it was disrupted by an Aryan invasion may now be discredited, but the debate over Indus ancestry and ...