These out-of-place artifacts, or OOPArts, are surprising for their place and time — but there's an explanation behind each ...

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

Mumbai: Trump may have recently lowered duties on Indian spices but centuries before US tariffs, Roman-occupied England taxed ...

Three hundred archaeological objects from 15 institutions trace long-distance trade, shared beliefs and cultural exchange ...

These ruins of the city of Babylon in Iraq date to the Neo-Babylonian Empire (626–539 B.C.). A 22-inch-high basalt stela depicting Babylon’s king Nabonidus (r. 556–539 B.C.) shows him wearing a ...

A study says the Ain Samiya goblet, found in 1970, depicts a moment of cosmic creation, challenging previous scholarly ...

Director and producer Professor Martin Worthington said Sumerian 'is probably the world’s first written language and died out around 2000 BCE' ...

The short film starring Trinity students and directed by Prof Martin Worthington is available on YouTube with subtitles in ...

Students and staff at Trinity College Dublin have produced the world's first film in the ancient - and dead - Sumerian ...

Among the great figures of ancient Mesopotamian stories, Ereshkigal stands out as one of the most powerful and mysterious.

The divine procession ls led by Hadad, Mesopotamian god of storms (far right, clutching a trio of lightning bolts); the moon god Sîn; the sun god Šamaš; and Atargatis, the region’s goddess of ...

Hailing from Japanese mythology, Amatsu-Mikaboshi, aka the Chaos King, is the primordial God of Evil and Chaos. Long ago, this dark god ruled over the void that existed before creation. His reign ...