Researchers have uncovered a vast and well-preserved network of ancient irrigation canals in the Eridu region of southern ...

MAEBASHI--Archaeologists uncovered an estimated 100,000 ancient coins, some of which are of Chinese origin and are more than 2,000 years old. The coins were tied together in bundles with straw ...

is located in Turkey’s southeastern Siirt province at the margins of the ancient region of Mesopotamia. Between roughly 3100 and 2800 B.C.E., communities began performing “conspicuous and ...

A team of archaeologists in Iraq, led by Sebastian Rey, the British Museum’s curator of ancient Mesopotamia, has uncovered compelling evidence of the empire’s formidable bureaucracy.

the British Museum’s curator for ancient Mesopotamia, tells the Observer’s Dalya Alberge. The Girsu Project researchers found more than 200 tablets and some 50 cylinder seal impressions of ...

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