DNA study of Bronze Age tombs in Turkey reveals teenage human sacrifices, challenging ideas about early Mesopotamian society.

A sprawling, hidden network of ancient irrigation canals has been uncovered near the ancient city of Eridu in southern Mesopotamia. Under the leadership of geoarchaeologist Jaafar Jotheri, researchers ...

Archaeologists have been left baffled after discovering a hoard of new data from a 4,800-year-old Mesopotamian grave site.

The finds, which also include dozens of clay sealings, contain details of a metric system used to measure resources, as well ...

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

Researchers have identified an extensive Mesopotamian canal network that supplied ancient farms in the Eridu region with water from the Euphrates river before the first millennium B.C.

Criterion (iii): The remains of the Mesopotamian cities of Uruk, Ur and Eridu offer an outstanding testimony to the growth and subsequent decline of southern Mesopotamian urban centres and societies ...

A remarkable aspect of the discovery is that, unlike other Mesopotamian regions where river courses changed drastically over the centuries, in the Eridu region, the Euphrates remained relatively ...

The irrigation network consists of over 200 primary canals, some of which stretch up to nine kilometers in length and are between two and five meters wide.

Joshua Hammer’s engaging new book, “The Mesopotamian Riddle,” chronicles the 1857 “race to decipher the world’s oldest writing.” There was no money on offer, but the challenge was a ...

As Mesopotamian society became more complex, writing allowed administrators to keep an account of who had been paid and what had been traded. The earliest cuneiform tablets are almost all records ...