The artifacts were excavated from a city dating back to the third millennium B.C.E. by researchers from Iraq and the British ...

Researchers have uncovered a vast and well-preserved network of ancient irrigation canals in the Eridu region of southern Mesopotamia, shedding new light on early farming practices. The research ...

University College London, the University of Central Lancashire, Ege University, and other institutions have discovered that ...

Archaeologists from the British Museum and Iraq have unearthed hundreds of administrative tablets from an ancient Sumerian city. Bureaucracy’s ability to take up needless time is clearly timeless. Sir ...

These 4,000-year-old tablets, uncovered at the ancient Sumerian city of Girsu (modern-day Tello), reveal everything from the mundane to the monumental: barley rations, livestock transactions ...

The cuneiform tablets discovered there and in other Hittite sites represent one of the largest groups of texts from the ancient Near East. They include thousands of sources in Hittite, an ...

The oldest reference in the first known writing — cuneiform — was not about gods or kings, but about beer. Lots of it. It was ...

For centuries, historians and linguists have been searching for the cradle of the Indo-Europeans, an ancient people who shaped history and created the world’s largest language family ...

Jaafar Jotheri, lead author of the study, posted on X that all the canals were connected to the ancient Euphrates and ... in the Euphrates floodplain and in Mesopotamia more broadly.” ...