Cosmos Magazine reports that analysis of DNA samples taken from 118 sheep bones unearthed at archaeological sites in Europe ...

may provide a wealth of knowledge about this Middle Bronze Age city and shed light on the more hidden history of Mesopotamia. The clay tablets are the first of their kind found in the region and ...

Mesopotamia, a region that includes all of modern-day Iraq as well as parts of Syria, Turkey and Iran, formed a significant part of the Fertile Crescent. Located between the Tigris and Euphrates ...

The study was undertaken in collaboration with the Garmian Directorate of Antiquities, Kurdistan Region of Iraq ... of the state and its institutions in Mesopotamia lie in part at least in ...

So, the first question driving an intriguing, though controversial, new study was: “Did seal imagery contribute significantly to the invention of signs in the first writing in the region?” ...

Recent discoveries challenge ideas of a sharp divide between the haves and have-nots in ancient Mesopotamia, suggesting a ...