Joshua Hammer takes a hugely enjoyable look at three rivals who competed to decipher the world’s oldest writing ...

The origins of ancient art can be traced back to our earliest ancestors who adorned cave walls with vibrant paintings ...

Long, long ago and far, far away in a country called Mesopotamia (meaning “land between rivers”) many aspects of civilization as we know it today took shape. That crescent between the T… ...

Researchers investigating how the first writing arose identified the motifs on preliterate "cylinder seals" used in the trade of agricultural products and textiles.

Before Mesopotamian people invented writing, they used cylinder seals to press patterns into wet clay – and some of the symbols used were carried over into proto-writing ...

While humans have been making their mark on the surfaces of this Earth for at least tens of thousands of years, it's difficult to pinpoint the exact moment our impulse to record what we saw tipped ...

The National Museum of Korea has set up its Mesopotamian Gallery and presents the exhibition Mesopotamia: Great Cultural Innovations, Selections from The Metropolitan Museum of Art.

Archaeology & History A Trove of 500 Ancient Babylonian Treasures Was Just Unearthed The discoveries shed new light on life in ancient Mesopotamia.

Mesopotamia Show at the Getty Teaches History, with Style Wall Panel with a Striding Lion, neo-Babylonian period 605–562 B.C. Glazed brick.

This Mesopotamian "Head of a Ruler" is among the works in the "Art of First Cities" exhibit at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. The head, made of copper alloy, came from the same region ...

Researchers have used bricks baked in ancient Mesopotamia to prove an unexplained spike in the intensity of the Earth's magnetic field.