Steppes Travel has launched its first Iraq tour – a 12-day journey through Mesopotamia's ancient wonders with an artist and ...

SCRIBE STATUE. FOUND: Lagash, Iraq. CULTURE: Sumerian. DATE: ca. 2400 B.C. LANGUAGE: Sumerian. In early 2016, hundreds of media outlets around the world reported that a set of recently deciphered ...

Assyrian cuneiform tablet from Kanesh(Courtesy of the Yale Babylonian Collection/Photography by Alberto Urcia/Text NBC 1907) Harvard University Assyriologist Gojko Barjamovic is currently ...

The Assyrian business community also had the first businesswomen and female investors. Generous tax breaks were given to ...

The world's first city was built long before the Harappans, and its ruins still stand in a quiet desert far from the usual ...

New findings add weight to the theory that states didn’t just spring up from any kind of farming – it had to be grain.

The cultivation of wheat, barley and maize, which are easily stored and taxed, seems to have led to the emergence of large ...