Discovering an ancient religion in the mountains of Iraq, specifically in Northern Iraq, also known as Iraqi Kurdistan, ...

Archaeologists working in northern Iraq have uncovered a 1,500‑year‑old religious complex that is forcing scholars to rethink ...

Mesopotamia, the world's oldest civilisation, arose in ancient Iraq, pioneering writing, law, and science. Explore its ...

In Şanlıurfa, Turkey, sacred sites tied to Abraham draw Jewish, Christian, and Muslim pilgrims, while prehistoric ruins and ...

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

The Ishtar Gate was the main entrance into the great city of Babylon, commissioned by King Nebuchadnezzar II (605-562 BC) as part of his plan to create one of the most splendid and powerful cities of ...

Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society, Vol. 107, No. 6, Cuneiform Studies and the History of Civilization (Dec. 20, 1963), pp. 473-484 (12 pages) ...

The Great Ziggurat of Ur dedicated to the Moon god. Ziggurats were massive structure typical for Mesopotamia. Sumerians believed that the gods lived in the temple at the top of the ziggurats. Woods ...

A newly published study by Dr. Jana Matuszak analyzes a translation of a Sumerian tablet discovered in the 19th century at Nippur, Iraq. Known as Ni 12501, the clay artifact dates to the Early ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Ancient DNA has revealed a genetic link between the cultures of ancient Egypt and Mesopotamia, according to research published Wednesday in the journal Nature. Researchers sequenced ...

WASHINGTON — Ancient DNA has revealed a genetic link between the cultures of ancient Egypt and Mesopotamia, according to research published Wednesday in the journal Nature. Researchers sequenced whole ...

(RNS) — A new Pew Research Center study measuring the evolution of the global religious population shows Muslims are the fastest-growing faith group, followed by the religiously unaffiliated. Though ...