There, only 100 miles south of Baghdad, it has uncovered perhaps the finest Sumerian find in 25 years—more than 50 ritual objects, vases, bas-reliefs and statues of the third millennium B.C ...

Archaeologists have unearthed strange alien-looking statues with elongated heads from ... which spread in its heyday from Mesopotamia to Anatolia and the Arabian peninsula. A recent dig has ...

In its headless condition it is now five inches high. Most of the seated statues have a Sumerian cuneiform inscription in panels on the front and back. The statue of the Semitic Museum has that ...