Archaeologists have found a hymn dating from nearly 3,000 years ago that describes the city of Babylon in glowing terms, praises its people, location, and river. It seems the words struck such a chord ...

The priests and priestesses of Mesopotamia retained the power they had held for thousands of years, and they were viewed in the same regard as kings. Religion played such an important part in the ...

LONDON -- For 1,500 years, from the era of Alexander the Great to the late 13th century, a high Mesopotamian priest in Babylon ruled as the supreme leader of Eastern Jewry. Known as the Exilarch ...

MESOPOTAMIAN PRIESTS ROBBED. Share full article Share free access. Dec. 1, 1891. Credit... The New York Times Archives. See the article in its original context from December 1, 1891, Page 2 Buy ...

“She Who Wrote: Enheduanna and Women of Mesopotamia ca. 3400-2000 B.C. at the Morgan proves the world's first author was a woman, not a man. And she wrote in the first person.

When a vast library of texts amassed by Mesopotamian King Ashurbanipal was burned to the ground about 2700 years ago, ... but also priests, traders and professional lamenters.

The Mesopotamian Riddle: An Archaeologist, a Soldier, a Clergyman, and the Race to Decipher the World's Oldest Writing. By Joshua Hammer. Simon & Schuster. 400 pages.

Active from around the 4th millennium B.C., the city reached its peak around the third millennium B.C. Some 40,000 people buzzed around the walled city, working as craftspeople, managers, and priests.

It can be traced back to almost 2000 B.C.E. (before the common era), when a Mesopotamian warlord chipped a long list of laws onto a stone slab. Hammurabi was not the first ruler to make laws.

What their record-keepers probably did not intend, but what happened anyway, was the beginning of scientific record-keeping. The careful records of Mesopotamian sky priests enabled the first exact ...

Kids in Mesopotamia played a lot of the games you might play at recess with your friends or at home with your siblings. They played games like spinning tops, jump ropes, hoops and board games.