BAGHDAD — An international archaeological mission has uncovered the remnants of what is believed to be a 5,000-year-old restaurant or tavern in the ancient city of Lagash in southern Iraq. The ...

BEIRUT (AP) — A system of thousands of ridges and canals across a floodplain in southern Iraq has long been believed to be the remnant of a massive agricultural system built by slave labor. Now an ...

Waššukanni has never been found and some scholars think that it may be located in northeastern Syria. The people who lived in ...

BAGHDAD — An international archaeological mission has uncovered the remnants of what is believed to be a 5,000-year-old restaurant or tavern in the ancient city of Lagash, in present-day southern Iraq ...

What has a curly beard that would make Santa Claus jealous, feathered wings and a muscular physique? No, it's not Ozzy Osbourne on tour - you are forgiven - it's the celestial being, the Lamassu. A ...

BAGHDAD -- Islamic State militants continued their campaign targeting cultural heritage sites in territories they control in northern Iraq, looting and damaging the ancient city of Hatra just one day ...

Nearly 400 archaeological artifacts have been uncovered in Iraq’s Babil province after heavy rainfall exposed ancient remains ...

Archealistgists may have finally figured out the origin of a vast network of ridges and canals in Southern Iraq. New evidence suggests that the lines, long thought to be the remains of a large-scale ...

Archaeologists from Germany have returned from northern Iraq without museum-ready artifacts but with rare insight into how ...

The team of archaeologists led by Dr. Alexander Tamm (FAU, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg) and Prof. Dirk Wicke (Institute of Archaeological Sciences, Goethe University Frankfurt) ...