Researchers previously assumed that some of the graves at the site were royal burials. A new study presents a different ...

The symbols from the temples at Dūr-Šarrukīn ... He specializes in the languages and civilizations of ancient Mesopotamia. Sign up for Chip Chick’s newsletter and get stories like this ...

Researchers have discovered an extensive and remarkably well-preserved system of ancient irrigation canals in the Eridu ...

Long before those rules were invented, symbols representing basic concepts ... they analyzed originated before writing emerged in ancient Mesopotamia, through to the proto-literate period.

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

Sixth grade project using Ancient Mesopotamia social studies curriculum and Microsoft Word. In pairs, the students create an ABC book. One student does A-M the other student does N-Z. They brainstorm ...

By the time of the New Testament, the city had become a potent symbol ... of the cult of Marduk across Mesopotamia was proof of Babylon’s prestige. No ancient city was so desired and feared ...

Eight human sacrifices were found at the entrance to this tomb, which held the remains of two 12-year-olds from ancient ...

the British Museum’s curator for ancient Mesopotamia, tells the Observer’s Dalya Alberge. The Girsu Project researchers found more than 200 tablets and some 50 cylinder seal impressions of ...