When a vast library of texts amassed by Mesopotamian King Ashurbanipal was burned to the ground about 2700 years ago, the ...

The finds, which also include dozens of clay sealings, contain details of a metric system used to measure resources, as well ...

Ancient stone tablets show government red tape goes back 4,000 years, say scientists - The administrative tablets give a rare ...

The Ancient Mesopotamian poem entitled the Epic ... the trend of the much more frequent concept of half-man half-god. A Mesopotamian example of this would be Adapa U-an, whereas a later well ...

Greg Jenner is joined in ancient Mesopotamia by Dr Moudhy Al-Rashid ... amounts of beer sold by brewers and the best way to ask the gods for advice, to squabbles between husbands and wives and ...