When rolled on a moist clay tablet, these engravings left low-relief markings, signifying that the object’s owner authorized ...

Two big new strategy games from Paradox and Sega cap a week of PC releases featuring Lovecraftian horror, rhythm-matching ...

Climate change and rising salinity threaten Iraq's ancient cities like Ur and Babylon, imperiling thousands of years of ...

New research uncovers how ancient tides shaped the rise of Sumer. A newly released study questions established beliefs about ...

Archaeologists working near Temple Mount in Jerusalem were exploring a pile of earth from an ancient drainage canal. They ...

Many small businesses are bracing for insurance hikes because of their neighbours as the brutal tobacco war claims even more ...

Archaeologists uncover a monumental 5,000-year-old building in Mesopotamia’s Kani Shaie, revealing Uruk’s cultural reach.

A monumental structure, whose foundations date back to the dawn of urbanization in the Fertile Crescent, has been unearthed at the Kani Shaie site in the Kurdistan region of northeastern Iraq (in the ...

Iraq's ancient Mesopotamian sites face erosion from climate change, threatening cultural heritage and archaeological ...

Iraqi officials are sounding the alarm to save monuments of the cradle of civilisation, with thousands of years of history at ...

Research shows that ancient tides shaped the rise of Sumer, the world’s first civilization. Shifting deltas and tidal rhythms ...