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.

The story of how the first cities rose from southern Mesopotamia has long fascinated scientists and historians. Many ...

Mesopotamian scribes wrote about feeling anger in their feet and love in their liver. Learn about the similarities and ...

A group of scientists has sequenced the genome of a man who was buried in Egypt around 4,500 years ago. The study offers rare insight into the genetic ancestry of early Egyptians and reveals links to ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — 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 ...

Sumer was an ancient civilization located in southern Mesopotamia, in what is now modern-day Iraq. It is often considered the cradle of civilization due to its numerous innovations, including the ...

An ancient civilization that ruled Mesopotamia nearly 4,000 years ago was likely wiped out because of disastrous dust storms, a new study suggests. The Akkadian Empire, which ruled what is now Iraq ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . The Archive for Oriental Studies publishes essays and reviews in the field of ancient Near Eastern philology (languages: Sumerian, Akkadian, Hittite, ...

Sakikkū, an ancient Babylonian-Assyrian text attributed to Esagil-kin-apli, offers a glimpse into early diagnostic systems.

Although it is generally agreed that small clay objects may have functioned in prehistory as accounting devices, there exists in Mesopotamia no sequence of evidence from their extensive 8th/7th ...