The Louvre Museum in Paris presents The Primordial Water, an exhibition on water in ancient Mesopotamia, running from May 20, ...
Iraq is facing an existential crisis rooted in vanishing rivers, outdated infrastructure, and unchecked population growth.
For decades, historians have generally agreed that the progress of small villages as they evolved into cities came at the ...
Ancient civilizations of Mesopotamia, Egypt, China, and India were largely formed thanks to the development of river valleys.
A study published in Antiquity has challenged one of the most widely accepted historical narratives of the past decades: the ...
Long before modern skyscrapers and crowded highways existed, the world’s earliest cities began forming around rivers, trade routes, and fertile farmland. These settlements changed human history by ...
The Tur Abdin region, in particular, has remained one of the most important centers of this heritage through its monasteries, churches, Assyrian language, literature, and centuries-old cultural ...
Iraqi artist's multitudinous clay explorations are powered by ancient myths, Arabian pop art, anonymous bloggers.
Ziggurat of Ur in Iraq. Credit: Kaufingdude / Wikimedia Commons / CC BY-SA 3.0 Iraq is restoring the Ziggurat of Ur, one of the world’s oldest surviving temple structures, using locally made bricks ...
The mighty Euphrates River — the legendary waterway that helped give rise to some of humanity’s earliest civilizations — has ...
Research of ancient artifacts show that Native American hunter-gatherers were playing games of probability long before ...
In an interview with Shafaq News, Iraqi archaeologist Amer Abdul Razzaq has urged the authorities in Baghdad to pursue legal ...