(250411) -- ANKARA, April 11, 2025 (Xinhua) -- Passengers walk to a Mesopotamia Express train in Ankara, Trkiye, on April 11, 2025. The Mesopotamia Express, a long-distance sleeper train designed to ...

As Iraq fitfully rebuilds, a groundbreaking exhibition is showcasing that nation’s rich roots in Mesopotamia, the region that gave birth to the world’s first urban civilization some 5,000 ...

April 22, 2025 • Experts are divided whether a new missile defense system for the U.S., inspired by Israel's Iron Dome, would be worth the cost.

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No Other Land Makes a Statement at the Oscars“My hope to my daughter is that she will not have to live the same life I am living now,” Palestinian director and star Basel Adra said.

Once part of ancient Mesopotamia, Başur Höyük is dated to between 3100 and 2800 B.C. Several stone tombs were discovered there a decade ago, full of hundreds of copper artifacts, textiles and ...

Has marriage always had the same definition? Actually, the institution has been in a process of constant evolution. Pair-bonding began in the Stone Age as a way of organizing and controlling ...

Previous studies have hinted that this period corresponded to the rise of kingship in ancient Mesopotamia as part of a general trend towards the formation of some of the world’s first states and ...

Archaeologists believe teenagers buried in the richest tombs were predominantly females aged between 12 and 16 years. DNA analysis revealed these adolescents were not biologically related to each ...

This cradle is the land between two rivers, Mesopotamia—the starting point for the agricultural villages that would grow in size and complexity until some 5,000 years ago. These villages became cities ...

He read of a flood, a ship caught on a mountain and a bird sent out in search of dry land—the first independent confirmation of a vast flood in ancient Mesopotamia, complete with a Noah-like ...