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 ...

For more than a century, scholars have largely agreed that the oldest cities in the world were built in Mesopotamia ... However, excavations of ancient sites belonging to the Neolithic Cucuteni ...

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 ...