The texts contain cuneiform symbols, an early writing system, and show the red tape of government bureaucracy dates back over ...

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

But in March 2023, the charismatic Orthodox priest in his forties saw his career come to an abrupt halt. His public criticism of the Moscow Patriarchate’s support for the Kremlin’s invasion of ...

A sprawling, hidden network of ancient irrigation canals has been uncovered near the ancient city of Eridu in southern Mesopotamia. Under the leadership of geoarchaeologist Jaafar Jotheri ...

A former priest with a child molestation conviction who was stripped of his American citizenship has been sentenced to a year in prison, authorities said Thursday. Antonio Velez-Lopez, a 69-year ...

Researchers have identified an extensive Mesopotamian canal network that supplied ancient farms in the Eridu region with water from the Euphrates river before the first millennium B.C.

Credit: Antiquity (2025). Archaeologists have discovered a massive and well-preserved network of ancient irrigation canals in southern Mesopotamia, providing new insights into how early ...

Researchers have uncovered a vast and well-preserved network of ancient irrigation canals in the Eridu region of southern Mesopotamia, shedding new light on early farming practices. The research team, ...

Although inspired by the Mesopotamian tradition, where law was the work of kings, the Israelite priests were pursuing a distinctly religious project. The Pentateuch (or Torah), the first five ...

Both the prophet and the pagan priests had altars piled with wood ... Baal is first mentioned in a list of Mesopotamian gods in an inscription at Abu Salabikh, near Bagdad in modern Iraq.