In an inventive, elliptical language, Peter Balakian's "New York Trilogy" explores one man’s journey from the late 1960s to ...

famed for their towering ziggurats, temples, palaces, and city walls; composed evocative creation myths, epics, hymns, and poems; and laid the foundations for future mathematics and astronomy. For ...

This statue covered in gold leaf and semiprecious stones may have been used in ancient Mesopotamian sunrise rituals.

An American long poem in three sections by Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Peter Balakian that moves between decades of ...

The origins of the signet ring can be traced back to Mesopotamia around 3,500BC, when they were used – often by illiterate businessmen – to authenticate documents and mark property.

In the heart of the arid Judean Desert, beneath the gaze of timeworn cliffs and desert heat, sits the city of Jericho, a ...

The Mesopotamia Fund is an open ended fund that will capitalize on the expected long term growth of the Iraqi Stock Exchange (ISX). The market capitalization of the exchange, which reopened in 2004, ...