A carved panel found at Nimrud depicts Assyrian soldiers swimming across a river and using inflatable goat skins as floaties.

A carved panel found at Nimrud depicts Assyrian soldiers swimming across a river and using inflatable goat skins as floaties.

The exhibition at the Hessel Museum of Art includes works by artists such as Dia al-Azzawi, Jewad Selim and Mohammed Ghani ...

In the ancient city of Nimrud (in modern-day Iraq), two statues dedicated to ... ramat exercised a degree of political power—unlike that of any other woman in the history of Mesopotamia.

Every story about descent starts with a pull, something that draws you downward, whether you’re ready or not. In Inanna’s ...

Ancient Mesopotamia, centered in present-day Iraq, occupies a unique place in the history of human culture. It is there, around 3400–3000 BC, that all the key elements of urban civilization first ...

Have you ever imagined a world where the great rivers we depend on—rivers that once seemed eternal—simply vanish? Across the ...

When Donald Trump returned to the White House this winter, members of his circle set about creating an establishment that ...

The Penn Museum has been involved in archaeological research in Egypt for more than a century. Most of the material in the ...

Scholars have long believed that Hatshepsut’s spiteful successor wanted to destroy every image of her, but the truth may be ...

Although many statues of Hatshepsut were intentionally broken, the reason behind their destruction has nothing to do with her ...

Ca. 2300–2000 b.c. The head likely depicts a Mesopotamian ruler and is one of the earliest known life-size lost-wax metal sculptures to survive. It had been thought that the head was virtually ...