Propaganda was perhaps less subtle three millennia ago: it’s doubtful a modern singer would describe their nation’s laws as ...

Tablets containing economic and administrative content dating back to Third Dynasty of Ur, Old Akkadian and Old Babylonian ...

The clay tablets, inscribed by priests and scribes with sharp-edged shapes and symbols, comprise the world’s first known system of writing, called cuneiform because of the wedge-shaped imprints ...

The Metropolitan exhibition opens with a limestone statue of a full-bearded “priest king” believed to be from 3300-3000 b.c. Uruk, a city of some 40,000 inhabitants that was home to the ...

Emerging from communities on the banks of the Tigris, in present-day Iraq, the Assyrians had conquered Babylon and Egypt and ruled in the Mesopotamian region from around 1300-600 B.C.

Would His ‘ Beatitude please send a priest to Chicago to minister to 150 Chaldean Rite Catholic families, refugees from Assyria and Mesopotamia and the largest group of their countrymen in the U ...

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 ...

Written in cuneiform, the world’s oldest form of writing, the tablets not only bring kings and queens to life, but also priests, traders and professional lamenters. They also include magic ...

Joshua Hammer’s engaging new book, “ The Mesopotamian Riddle,” chronicles the 1857 “race to decipher the world’s oldest writing.” There was no money on offer, but the challenge was a ...