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

Gunung Padang, first re-discovered by Dutch explorers in 1890, is said to be the world's oldest pyramid. Studies show that ...

A scientist has made a bold claim that the Garden of Eden, also referred to as Paradise, has been found, but it's not where ...

Last Friday, following the screening of No Other Land in San Diego, I discussed the film with a Jewish attendee who drew a ...

Sumerian civilization appears to have evolved in Southern Mesopotamia around 4000 BC, while some historians place it as far ...

A roughly 4,800-year-old royal Mesopotamian cemetery in eastern Turkey appears to complicate existing theories about how some ...

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

From the Trans-Canada Highway to Europe's Route E40, these vast roadways stretch across the world's continents, connecting ...

Almost 4,000 years ago, a Mesopotamian man named Nanni was so disappointed with the copper he bought from a trader named ...

After the immense international success of "La Disparition de Josef Mengele", Olivier Guez returns with "Mesopotamia" – a novel about Gertrude Bell, a young lady from Victorian high society who became ...

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