The latest findings cast light on the history of a major civilization that is considered to be one of the world's first ...

In 1882, the British Museum acquired the oldest known map of the world, which was carved into a clay tablet from Babylon and ...

This research provides new insights into the cultural exchange between Neolithic communities in Arabia and the Ubaid culture from Mesopotamia. The Bahra 1 site, located in the Al-Subiyah desert ...

Two types of pottery were in use in the larger Arabian region. One was the Ubaid pottery imported from Mesopotamia and the ...

has been a year of extraordinary archaeological discoveries that have challenged long-held beliefs about human history.

The monument was built during a period of immigration from mainland Europe, and it may been intended to unify communities ...

Jump in your time machine and set the dial for ancient Mesopotamia; you might find people gesturing to very different parts ...

Newly analyzed 5,000-year-old clay bowls unearthed in Iraq may be evidence of early government-like rule, a new study finds.

The embodied experience of emotions seems to be consistent across modern cultures, but is this true for ancient cultures too?

Gobeklitepe and Karahantepe are 7,000 years older than the historic region of Mesopotamia, located in today’s Iraq and parts of Kuwait, Syria, Turkey and Iran. Before the discoveries of the two ...