The Latest Breaking News from Mesopotamia

We think of ancient civilisations as operating very differently from the way our economy works today. Yet the Bronze Age Assyrians living in Mesopotamia, around 4,000 to 3,000 years ago, began the basis of modern capitalism, in a region spanning most of modern-day Iraq, eastern Syria and southeastern Turkey. The…

Researchers say art combines elements of various myths and legends from across ancient Mesopotamia

Sealed inside a rocky tomb for over four millennia, an Egyptian skeleton has just revealed a hidden chapter of ancient history.

Ancient DNA has revealed links between the cultures of Egypt and Mesopotamia

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

Archaeologists are unsure why unrelated teenagers were buried in an elaborate Bronze Age tomb but think their age may be a clue.

Ancient Mesopotamian stone tablets show extraordinary detail and reach of government in cradle of world civilisations

Researchers have identified an extensive Mesopotamian canal network that supplied ancient farms in the Eridu region with water from the Euphrates river before the first millennium B.C.

A lyre in a treasure-laden royal tomb discovered in Mesopotamia is the earliest stringed instrument ever found.