Rising from the plains of southern Iraq, the Great Ziggurat of Ur was built around 2050 BCE as a sacred link between heaven ...

A new study published in the Journal of World Prehistory reveals that some of humanity's earliest artistic representations of ...

A new study reveals that the Halafian culture of northern Mesopotamia (c. 6200–5500 BCE) produced the earliest systematic ...

Under the Belt and Road Initiative, cultural exchanges between China and the UAE have flourished. Mubarak reaffirmed his ...

WHY IRAQ? WHY NOW? Long overlooked and often misunderstood, Iraq is re-emerging as a destination of profound cultural and historical significance. Known as the heart of ancient Mesopotamia - where ...

The fear of vampires did not begin with Dracula. Several thousand years ago, the ancient Mesopotamians had already recorded ...

Steppes Travel has launched its first Iraq tour – a 12-day journey through Mesopotamia's ancient wonders with an artist and ...

A team of researchers has used artificial intelligence to restore a 3,000-year-old Babylonian hymn inscribed on cuneiform tablets, according to newly published research. Using machine learning, the ...

Lullabies are not a recent invention. In fact, they stretch back thousands of years, undoubtedly to the time before written history. Many ancient Mesopotamian lullabies, from the cultures of Babylon, ...

In ancient times, Mesopotamia, meaning ‘land between two rivers’, was a vast region that lay between the Tigris and Euphrates river systems, and it is where civilization emerged over 7,000 years ago.

Findings show that the Copper Age societies in the ‘Dasht-e Zohreh’ around 6,000 years ago were not only on par with, but also more advanced than Mesopotamia in some innovations, including brickmaking ...

Reconstruction of the head of the man found inside a chamber in the tomb complex of Nurayrat PAGASA raises Signal No. 1 over 9 Luzon areas due to 'Crising' Eala in US Open main draw entry list 'It's ...