The cuneiform tablet from the 6th century BC shows an aerial view map of Mesopotamia — roughly modern-day Iraq — and what the Babylonians believed lay beyond the known world at the time.

Researchers have identified an extensive Mesopotamian canal network that supplied ancient farms in the Eridu region with ...

which covers much of what is now Iraq. Ancient Mesopotamia has languished in obscurity, at least compared with the better-known Greek, Roman and Egyptian civilisations. So… Receive a weekly dose ...