Researchers made the new discoveries during field work at the Bronze Age site of Kurd Qaburstan. The research provides insights into regional heritage and fills gaps in knowledge about how ancient ...

Board game, clay tablets and building remains shed light on the ancient city of Qabra and its cultural identity.

Ancient Sumerians - which lived in the “Fertile Crescent” of southern Iraq from around 5300 BC ... mathematics, architecture and social organisation provided a foundation for other ...

In 2014, the IS terrorist group took control of the Iraqi city of Mosul, systematically destroying its many cultural ...

University of Central Florida, courtesy of Tiffany Earley-Spadoni An ancient game board, building remains and three clay tablets recently discovered by archaeologists in northeastern Iraq provide ...

The Middle Bronze Age in northern Iraq is poorly ... along with building rubble and human remains," she says. "Its context suggests dramatic events, possibly evidence of ancient warfare.

A decade after jihadists ransacked Iraq's famed Nimrud site, archaeologists have been painstakingly putting together its ancient treasures ... age of "the art and architecture of the Assyrian ...

Archaeologists from the Free University of Brussels (VUB), led by archaeologist Ella Egberts, unearthed ancient stone tools in Iraq's Western Desert. According to Arkeonews.net, the team ...

Recent discoveries challenge ideas of a sharp divide between the haves and have-nots in ancient Mesopotamia, suggesting a larger middle class than previously thought.