In ancient times, Mesopotamia, meaning 'land between two rivers', was a vast region that lay between the Tigris and Euphrates river systems, and it is where civilization emerged over 7,000 years ago.

Mesopotamia, the world's oldest civilisation, arose in ancient Iraq, pioneering writing, law, and science. Explore its ...

AN ADVANCED civilisation that ruled large swathes of the Middle East 4,000 years ago may have been wiped out by a spot of bad weather. The Akkadian Empire flourished during the Bronze Age and new ...

The Morgan Library & Museum presents She Who Wrote: Enheduanna and Women of Mesopotamia, ca. 3400-2000 B.C, on view in New York through February 19, 2023. Cylinder seal (modern impression) with ...

A lost empire that ruled Mesopotamia for 200 years was wiped out by a cataclysmic series of winter dust storms that caused drought and famine, a study has found. The empire's demise was aided by a ...

Fossil coral records provide new evidence that frequent winter shamals, or dust storms, and a prolonged cold winter season contributed to the collapse of the ancient Akkadian Empire in Mesopotamia.

“Who was the first author in history whose name we know?” This sounds like a trick question, but it is not — at least not according to the gem of a new show at the Morgan Library, “She Who Wrote: ...

Experts from Tel Aviv University and Ariel University have created a program to translate an ancient language that is difficult to decipher, allowing automatic and accurate translation from cuneiform ...

Cylinder seal (modern impression) with goddesses Ninishkun and Ishtar, Mesopotamia, Akkadian, Akkadian period (ca. 2334–2154 BCE), Cuneiform inscription: “To the deity Niniškun, Ilaknuid, ...