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… ...

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

Whether carved in ivory or stone, the bull was more than just an important food source. Sumerian and Akkadian traditions describe the Bull of Heaven, which features in a conflict between Ishtar and ...

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 first is "Cultural Innovation," which deals with the birth of cities. The second, "Art and Identity," presents works expressing individual identity. And the third, "The Age of Empires," presents ...

The team examined cylinder seals from a wide area of south-west Asia, including Mesopotamia, that dated to 4400 to 3400 BC. They found several symbols that corresponded to proto-cuneiform symbols.

I n Mesopotamia: Civilization Begins, the new exhibition at the Getty Villa, the Getty does indeed start at the very beginning.At a place in what we now call Iraq, between the Tigris and Euphrates ...

The world's oldest known system of writing was influenced by symbols used for trade — engravings found on cylinders used in the exchange of farming produce and textiles, a new study suggests ...

ERBIL, Kurdistan Region - Twelve artists from Iraq and the Kurdistan Region participated in an exhibition on Mesopotamian culture held in Washington last week, showcasing their paintings and ...

The finding reinforces an idea proposed in earlier research: that cuneiform script — which was developed in early Mesopotamia around 3100 B.C. and is thought to be the earliest writing system ...