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

The presiding theory now is that Anatolian isn’t the daughter of Proto-Indo-European, but its sister, with both being the products of a much more ancient language which provided the bases for the ...

But the ziggurat at Ur, which is the best preserved in Mesopotamia (and much reconstructed during the 1960s), is marked by the cannon fire that raked it during the 1991 Gulf War. 'I finished my ...

The shift from ancient to modern metropolises often leaves historians and curious minds asking: which are the oldest ...

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 ...

In another strange turn tied to the sale of the iconic Ziggurat building, the U.S. General Services Administration canceled the high-profile online auction of the 92-acre property on Wednesday, ...

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

Throughout human history, our understanding of the past has been reset countless times based on what we think we know ...

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.

"The findings provide valuable insights into the utilization of Uruk's waterways, the evolution of its floodplain, and the broader processes that shaped early urbanization in Mesopotamia," according ...