near today’s Baghdad—an indication of the wide-ranging impact of Mesopotamian sculpture. “The distressing news about the looting at the National Museum in Baghdad and at archaeological sites ...

Archaeologists have unearthed strange alien-looking statues with elongated heads from ... which spread in its heyday from Mesopotamia to Anatolia and the Arabian peninsula. A recent dig has ...

It’s the first such find in the region, they noted, though others with a similar countenance have turned up at Mesopotamian sites and are typical of others related to the Neolithic Ubaid ...