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Are these the coolest infrastructure pics you've ever seen or what?

This 15-karat gold helmet was discovered in a royal tomb at Ur, but it may only have been worn for ceremonial purposes.

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

A newfound clay head from the sixth millennium B.C. is the first of its kind ever found in Kuwait, but similar finds have been unearthed from ancient Mesopotamia.

When English settlers came to the "new Zion," they behaved much like Israeli Zionists today. What's the lesson?

Iraq unveils plans to build a new church in ancient Ur to attract Christian pilgrims and promote religious tourism, showcasing its rich religious history.

Thousands of artefacts are being shipped back to Iraq, but many more were taken during the post-invasion looting.

It was a random morning in November, and Enheduanna was trending. Suddenly, the ancient Mesopotamian priestess, who had been dead for more than 4,000 years, was a hot topic online as word spread that the first individually named author in human history was … a woman? That may have been…

Women’s achievements and contributions have been routinely neglected, overlooked or misattributed. In my new book, I tell the story of 1,000 of these extraordinary characters missing from history. Here are just a few