The Sumerians lived in Mesopotamia from about 4500 to 1750 B.C.E., and developed a number of technologies that changed the ...

A Mesopotamian myth from nearly 4,000 years ago tells of a man who builds a boat to save the world from a divine flood, long ...

The Assyrian Empire shaped the ancient world for centuries. At its height, it stretched from the Persian Gulf to Egypt, ...

In the early 20th century, architects turned to a newly discovered past to craft novel visions of the future: the ancient history of Mesopotamia. Eva Miller traces how both the mythology of Babel and ...

In the early 20th century, architects and artists like Hugh Ferriss drew on the myths and monuments of ancient Babylon to ...

By 2000 B.C., it thrived as an affluent port of roughly 60,000 people who enjoyed a level of wealth unknown in other Mesopotamian cities. Its markets pulled in trade from all over the ancient ...

Archaeologists excavate the site of the ancient Sumerian city of Eridu, near Basra in southern Iraq, in 2022. Alla Al-Marjani/Reuters/GTRES. ... the god of water and wisdom, ...

Over time, our connection with these deities has evolved from devotion to embodiment, guiding us into connecting with “the ...

Archaeologists have uncovered new evidence about an ancient Mesopotamian landscape, offering fresh insight into the legacy of black slavery during the early Islamic Period. Across the floodplain of ...