Excavations on unpromising mounds in the Iraqi desert revealed Sumer’s earliest city. Surviving relics and a rebuilt temple have given experts more clues about the ancient metropolis of Eridu.

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Arab Americans celebrate their history and culture because it gives us immense joy and cradles us during exceedingly horrific ...

(The city-state of Ur emerged as an important center ... Troy resemble aspects of jewelry found in Greece, central Turkey, Mesopotamia and the IndusValley. Arustic banquet scene incised on a ...

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The Armenian Genocide, the systematic mass murder and expulsion of 1.5 million ethnic Armenians carried out in Turkey and ...

Set in ancient Mesopotamia, Sumerians allows you to build up a small ... Less a city builder and more a city-state builder, Songs of Syx lets you dive into the minutiae of your residents' lives and ...

The teenagers’ skeletons were unearthed at the cemetery of Basur Höyük where researchers previously uncovered evidence of “grand funerary rituals” and the burial of “spectacular” quantities of ...

Not long ago, Iraq was viewed as a kind of hell on Earth. But the country has recovered its stability, and the government is ...

Greek sources portrayed the Achaemenid kings, as indulgent and ruthless—all but Cyrus II. Why was this enemy ruler the only exception?