Archaeologists working at a long-buried city ... Mesopotamia’s hidden story. The site, Kurd Qaburstan, sits in the Erbil region and may have once been the powerful city of Qabra, referenced in ...

Corresponding to an area comprising of today’s Iraq, part of Syria, and Turkey, the heartland of Mesopotamia ... the city of Uruk. He named Inanna first, in an inscription found at Nippur ...

NIPPUR MAP TABLET. DATE: ca. 1500 B.C. MATERIAL: Clay. DIMENSIONS: 5 inches by 4.3 inches. FOUND: Nippur, Iraq. For the busy farmers of the Babylonian sacred city of Nippur, ready access to water ...

Visiting these cities will give travellers an insight into the region's long and storied history – as well into contemporary Iraq. For the ancient Sumerians, Nippur was the link between heaven ...

THE great and inventive people who settled 5,500 years ago in Mesopotamia ... chipping away at the sites of such ancient city-states as Ur, Lagash and Mari. Last week a U.S. expedition, sponsored ...

Writing, laws, cities, and science—these and other innovations were devised by the enterprising peoples living in Sumer, the land between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers, some 5,000 years ago.

Archaeologists have uncovered a vast network of canals underneath the world’s oldest city in Mesopotamia ... preserving the ancient landscape unlike elsewhere in Mesopotamia where older ...

Girsu was a city in Sumer, the oldest civilization of ancient Mesopotamia. Numerous archaeological discoveries have been made there since the late 19th century, albeit much of the early excavation ...

Mesopotamia, with its dense network of ancient cities in the fertile plains along the Tigris and Euphrates rivers near the Persian Gulf, is often regarded as the birthplace of urban civilization.

Another challenge is to create a visually satisfying scene and catch the right atmosphere. What did ancient Mesopotamia look like? How people spoke, what kind of gestures they had and how they dressed ...

Leonard Woolley’s excavation of Ur yielded an archaeologist’s dream: a series of intact burials from one of the world's most important ancient cities ... culture of Mesopotamia had been ...