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

This 5,000-year-old tablet is believed to hold the world's first signature — and it's on a receipt for beer. Experts believe ...

Photograph by Werner Forman, GTRES This story appears in the January/February 2017 issue of National Geographic History magazine. Mesopotamia ... of Islam. The site of Babylon was first ...

New discoveries by a UCF researcher and her team at the ancient Mesopotamian site of Kurd Qaburstan ... and shed light on the more hidden history of Mesopotamia. The clay tablets are the first ...

The Mesopotamia Express, a long-distance sleeper train designed to attract tourists to the nation's storied heartland, started operation on Friday. The service, connecting the capital Ankara and the ...