Rashid’s book is as much a people’s history of Mesopotamia as it is a history of objects, great personages and notable events ...

The story of how the first cities rose from southern Mesopotamia has long fascinated scientists and historians. Many ...

Since acquiring the tablet in 1882, the British Museum made a significant breakthrough when it found a piece that had been ...

The Rohonc Codex is one of the most enigmatic manuscripts in existence, an illustrated book filled with hundreds of unknown ...

In the 19th century, archaeologists excavating the ancient ruins of Nineveh, present-day Mosul in Iraq, unearthed one of the ...

Buried for 4,500 Years in a Sealed Clay Coffin, This Ancient Egyptian’s Secret Is Rewriting Everything We Thought We Knew ...

Over the years, a number of conflicting claims have been made about the script and the language it might have represented.