Low water levels in the two main rivers, down to 27%, threaten the ecosystem. The situation is exacerbated by dams built ...

Rashid’s book is as much a people’s history of Mesopotamia as it is a history of objects, great personages and notable events ...

Shifting tides along the coast of the ancient region called Mesopotamia might have spurred the rise of the world’s oldest ...

The story of how the first cities rose from southern Mesopotamia has long fascinated scientists and historians. Many ...

China’s Zhongman Petroleum and Natural Gas Group (ZPEC) has launched its first subsidiary in Iraq, nearly a year after it won ...

Since acquiring the tablet in 1882, the British Museum made a significant breakthrough when it found a piece that had been ...

The Sumerian King List begins with the very origin of kingship, which is seen as a divine institution: “the kingship had descended from heaven.” The rulers in the earliest dynasties are represented as ...

The ibex is far from a humble mountain goat—it’s one of history’s most enduring artistic symbols. So prolific is its presence in prehistoric art, in fact, that a new study suggests the animal held ...

New research introduces a paleoenvironmental model in which tidal dynamics influenced the earliest development of agriculture and sociopolitical complexity in Sumer.

Iraq's Euphrates River is running at historically low levels as the drought-stricken country faces its worst water scarcity ...