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

Indeed, you persisted in making my clothes ... in ancient Babylon, I like to think she rolled her eyes, took a deep breath, and wondered if there was enough barley wine in all of Mesopotamia ...

A letter from ancient Mesopotamia, nearly 4000 years old, shows that even back then, kids were griping about not having the same standard of clothing as their peers! In 1790BC (the letter is ...

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

Marked with the administrative details of government, the tablets have illuminated the complicated bureaucracy of an ancient Mesopotamian civilization. The tablets were discovered in the Sumerian ...

A team of archaeologists in Iraq, led by Sebastian Rey, the British Museum’s curator of ancient Mesopotamia, has uncovered compelling evidence of the empire’s formidable bureaucracy.