Excavations on unpromising mounds in the Iraqi desert ... Archaeologists excavate the site of the ancient Sumerian city of Eridu, near Basra in southern Iraq, in 2022. Buried in the Mesopotamian ...

New discoveries by a UCF researcher and her team at the ancient Mesopotamian ... present-day Iraq. The study of these new tablets could reveal important details about the city's connections ...

The oldest civilisation we know is the Sumerian - located in the far south of present-day Iraq. Around 6,000 ... of a vast number of mounds - the remains of ancient buildings - covering acres ...

Egypt may have the Pyramids of Giza, but Iraq has the Ziggurat of Ur – an incredibly well-preserved engineering achievement that towers over the ruins of an important ancient city. (This year ...

A Penn archeology team has uncovered 2,700-year-old rock carvings from the ancient city of Nineveh, which is located in the modern city of Mosul in northern Iraq. The carvings were ... mudbrick wall ...

traders in the ancient city of Zakhiku would wait for wooden beams, cut down from the forests in the mountains in the north and east of Mesopotamia – spanning what is today Iraq, Kuwait and ...

Archeologists say a 3,400-year-old city was uncovered in Iraq after extreme drought conditions ... The Bronze Age city — which "could be" the ancient city of Zakhiku, per the release ...

One of three stone tablets found in northeastern Iraq that may reveal more information ... the excavation site of Kurd Qaburstan is the ancient city of regional capital Qabra, but much of the ...

Kurdish and German archaeologists resumed excavations of an ancient ... city complex including a palace and several large buildings, which emerged when the waters of the reservoir receded. Iraq ...

The research provides insights into regional heritage and fills gaps in knowledge about how ancient ... day Iraq. The study of these new tablets could reveal important details about the city's ...