Nebuchadnezzar II claimed divine inspiration for his restoration work, stating that the gods Zababa and Ishtar motivated him to undertake the project. After completing the renovations, he proclaimed: ...

An Italian Archaeological Mission, consisting of Prof. Guiseppe Furliani and Prof. Doro Levi, from the University of Florence, and Count Franco, has left for Mesopotamia. This mission will carry out ...

PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA—According to a Science News report, a drone survey of Lagash, a site situated between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers, indicates the 4,900-year-old settlement was built on ...

Tree-ring dating and radiocarbon research has established an absolute timeline for the archaeological, historical and environmental record in Mesopotamia from the early second millennium B.C.

About 3,000 years ago in ancient Mesopotamia, brickmakers imprinted the names of their kings into clay bricks. Now, an analysis of the metal grains in those bricks has confirmed a mysterious anomaly ...

TORONTO, ONTARIO—CT scans and 3-D modeling were used by Christopher Woods of the University of Chicago’s Oriental Institute to examine the interiors of 20 clay balls, known as envelopes, made in ...