A new study challenges long-standing beliefs about Pharaoh Hatshepsut’s destroyed statues, suggesting they were ritually deactivated.

Step back in time as we recreate the world's oldest known recipe — a rich and hearty lamb stew from ancient Mesopotamia.

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

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

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

This statue covered in gold leaf and semiprecious stones may have been used in ancient Mesopotamian sunrise rituals. Comments ( 0 ) ( ) When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an ...

Archaeologists working in the ancient city of Nineveh—now Mosul, Iraq—have unearthed a gigantic statue depicting King Ashurbanipal, the former ruler of the Assyrian Empire, Ancient Origins ...

Archaeologists have dug up something otherworldly that may help connect diverse ancient ... 7,000-year-old sculpture resembling an ... have turned up at Mesopotamian sites and are typical of ...

MYSTERIOUS alien-like statues with bizarre elongated skulls and lizard features have been unearthed at an ancient Stone Age site. Archaeologists discovered the statues from 7,000 years ago in Kuwai… ...

Mysterious alien-like statues unearthed from ancient Stone Age settlement. ... One was the Ubaid pottery imported from Mesopotamia and the second was a local pottery called Coarse Red Ware.

Archaeologists have unearthed strange alien-looking statues with elongated heads from over 7,000 years ago in Kuwait, shedding more light on the origin and evolution of one of the oldest settlements ...