The spread of the cult of Marduk across Mesopotamia was proof of Babylon’s prestige. No ancient city was so desired and feared, so admired and denigrated. But in the Hebrew tradition ...

In the mid-1960s, a Soviet military topographer was analyzing aerial photos of Ukraine when he came across some unusual shadows. Looking closely at the patterns of plants in a number of fields, he ...

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 ...

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.