Mesopotamia, located in the fertile valley between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers, was one of the cradles of civilization around 6000 years ago and the birthplace of the first writing system. Each ...

Beneath the rugged mountains of southeastern Iran, archaeologists are carefully unearthing traces of a Bronze Age society ...

Neil Hegarty An Irishman in Northern Mesopotamia by Nicholas Mackey (Unicorn, £25) Northern Mesopotamia stands between the Euphrates and the Tigris rivers in what is now southeast Türkiye ...

Mr. Gund built from scratch. His 1976 Hyatt Regency Cambridge, a brick ziggurat on the Charles River, was a departure from the hotel chain’s signature sleek steel towers. A seemingly understated ...

The Tigris tumbled by, roughly 85 feet below. To our right a crumbling ziggurat rose from the lip of the cliff. “This area was the temple of Assur,” Abdullah said, shielding his eyes from ...

In 1954, a curious structure was discovered in the northwest of the island of Sardinia, near the town of Porto Torres: a ...