Excavations on unpromising mounds in the Iraqi desert revealed Sumer’s earliest city. Surviving relics and a rebuilt temple ...

Discover the breathtaking charm of Mardin, perched above the Tigris River, with this stunning drone footage, showcasing its ...

in New York City, through August 17. The exhibition focuses attention on the distinctive style and far-reaching influence of the art created by the Sumerians of lower Mesopotamia, a people who ...

Emerging from communities on the banks of the Tigris, in present-day Iraq, the Assyrians had conquered Babylon and Egypt and ruled in the Mesopotamian ... great Assyrian city of Calah standing ...

Archaeologists in Peru said Thursday they found the 5,000-year-old remains of a noblewoman at the sacred city of Caral, ...

Buried for five millennia and forgotten beneath what was once a coastal dump, the tomb of a powerful woman from Peru’s ...

LIMA – Archaeologists in Peru said Thursday (Friday Manila time) they found the 5,000-year-old remains of a noblewoman at the ...

Palmyra was considered one of the world's most intact ancient Roman sites. ISIS blew up many key monuments of this storied ...

The idea is as old as time, at least since Lagash, a Mesopotamian city that imposed them around 2,500 BCE. The port city of Antwerp in Belgium is known for being very severe with import duties in ...

But what happened in Mesopotamia to prompt such revolutionary changes ... that had become the fashion in Ur just as it became what we might now recognize as a city-state: a dense settlement of people ...