The showdown between the ancient Greek city states and the Achaemenid Empire of Persia was one of the pivotal moments of ...

7th-6th centuries B.C. Babylon’s golden age under Chaldean rule is ended by the Persian king ... of Marduk across Mesopotamia was proof of Babylon’s prestige. No ancient city was so desired ...

Researchers have discovered an extensive and remarkably well-preserved system of ancient irrigation canals in the Eridu ...

Mesopotamia, with its dense network of ancient cities in the fertile plains along the Tigris and Euphrates rivers near the Persian Gulf, is often regarded as the birthplace of urban civilization.

A team of archaeologists in Iraq, led by Sebastian Rey, the British Museum’s curator of ancient Mesopotamia, has uncovered compelling evidence of the empire’s formidable bureaucracy.

The project Embodied Emotions: Ancient Mesopotamia and Today was granted funding by the Finnish Cultural Foundation in September 2022 and will run until 2026. It explores how emotions were embodied by ...