Excavations on unpromising mounds in the Iraqi desert revealed Sumer’s earliest city. Surviving relics and a rebuilt temple ...

Uruk, the ancient citadel of Erbil, and Al-Qurnah – believed by many to be the site of the fabled Garden of Eden. They’ll also explore the iconic city of Babylon and the archaeological museum ...

Abandoning Uruk, Gilgamesh sets off to discover the secret ... They shipped 100,000 tablets and fragments home to the British Museum; gradually scholars began to piece them together and decipher ...

Uruk, the ancient citadel of Erbil, and Al-Qurnah – believed by many to be the site of the fabled Garden of Eden. They’ll also explore the iconic city of Babylon and the archaeological museum ...

Today, when one thinks of the origin of sports and athletic competitions, the ancient Greeks often come to mind. Although ...

With some 400 works culled from 51 museums and private collections in the ... “priest king” believed to be from 3300-3000 b.c. Uruk, a city of some 40,000 inhabitants that was home to the ...

Uruk, the ancient citadel of Erbil, and Al-Qurnah – believed by many to be the site of the fabled Garden of Eden. They’ll also explore the iconic city of Babylon and the archaeological museum in ...

According to archaeology news site Ancient Origins, the Sumerian tablet was first uncovered at the site of the city of Uruk located in ancient Mesopotamia ... As Craig Barker, a classical ...

The director of the Mauritshuis museum in the Netherlands said the Trump administration’s proposed funding cuts to ...

The London institution, which turns 25 this week, encouraged its peers to look beyond the West. But its greatest impact was ...

As they painstakingly scrape grime off a monumental painting by French artist Gustave Courbet, the restorers do a remarkable ...