The diamond pattern on the statues' bases may represent mountains — specifically those on the eastern horizon of Ur where the sun rises. Daily sunrise was very important in ancient Mesopotamia.

Babylon had a significant impact on Mesopotamia ... (Supplements to the Journal of Ancient Near Eastern and Biblical Legal History). Stealing the statue of Marduk from his own temple would ...

MYSTERIOUS alien-like statues with bizarre elongated skulls ... insights specifically into the Ubaid culture, which came from Mesopotamia, a region in Iraq, over to Antolia and the Arabian peninsula.

Archaeologists have unearthed strange alien-looking statues with elongated heads from ... which spread in its heyday from Mesopotamia to Anatolia and the Arabian peninsula. A recent dig has ...

2300–2000 BCE. Credit: Anna-Marie Kellen / The Metropolitan Museum of Art A recent study of an ancient Mesopotamian sculpture using cutting-edge technology has provided information about the earliest ...

The Bahra 1 site, where the statues were found, has been a focal point for research on ancient Stone Age societies ... which spread in its heyday from Mesopotamia to Anatolia and the Arabian ...

The Bahra 1 site, where the statues were found, has been a focal point for research on ancient Stone Age societies in Arabia since 2009. Excavations at the site have given insights into the Ubaid ...