The exhibition focuses attention on the distinctive style and far-reaching influence of the art created by the Sumerians of lower Mesopotamia, a people who founded the first cities, invented ...

Cuneiform tablets from ancient Babylon cover a range of topics, from exorcising ghosts to uncovering the location of Noah’s ...

The Manhattan district attorney’s office said the objects had been identified as illicit during an investigation of an art ...

670 lb.) (The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Fletcher Fund, 1931 (31.13.1) Image: www.metmuseum.org. VEX.2020.1.2) In Mesopotamia: Civilization Begins, the new exhibition at the Getty Villa ...

“The Mesopotamian Riddle” builds to its climactic ... Mr. Carter is the vice chairman of 20th- and 21st-century art at Christie’s in New York.

Between Two Rivers, by Oxford scholar Moudhy Al-Rashid, tells the story of ancient Mesopotamia, a period in world history sometimes known as a “forgotten age”. The world’s first known museum ...