Archaeologists have discovered the large limestone burial chamber of an unidentified ancient Egyptian pharaoh near the city ...

Archaeologists are unsure why unrelated teenagers were buried in an elaborate Bronze Age tomb but think their age may be a ...

When a vast library of texts amassed by Mesopotamian King Ashurbanipal was burned to the ground about 2700 years ago, the ...

More than 200 clay cuneiform tablets and 60 seals linked to the Ancient Mesopotamian government were discovered by archaeologists at the ancient Sumerian city Girsu or the present-day site Tello in ...

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

A group of archaeologists has successfully deciphered a4,000-year-old collection of cuneiform tablets that reveal ominous ...

Used to flavour food, it was then infused in perfumes and oils in many ancient cultures. Dating back to 3500 BC, the Sumerians and Assyrians extracted fragrances from the petals by dunking them in ...

The picture was captioned: ‘The great king Gilgamesh: Seeker after truth’. Students of literature are familiar with the tale of Gilgamesh. Naturally, I thought that the reference to the ancient ...

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 team, ...

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.” ...

After King Ashurbanipal’s library in Nineveh was discovered ... The conventional history of writing dates its emergence to Proto-Cuneiform tablets used in the economy of ancient Mesopotamia. Tokens of ...