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 ...

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

Ancient Babylonian world map from a clay tablet, nearly 3,000 years old, reveals a version of the Noah's Ark story and mythical lands.

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 ...

The Paleolithic of the Euphrates valley in Syria / Lorrain Copelands -- Les terrasses pléistocènes de la vallée de l'Euphrate en Syrie et dans l'extrême sud de la Turquie / Paul Sanlaville -- ...

The dissolution of the colonial creation named “Iraq” is now almost complete. Perhaps what comes next is a return to the past; not a brutal Islamic “caliphate,” but something more basic. Today, ...

Holy plot twist! A provocative new theory suggests that the original Garden of Eden may not have been in Mesopotamia, roughly modern-day Iraq, as has been long-assumed — but rather in Egypt, under the ...

Ancient DNA has revealed a genetic link between the cultures of ancient Egypt and Mesopotamia, according to research published Wednesday in the journal Nature. Researchers sequenced whole genomes from ...