The history of our cities has been written in water. In Mesopotamia, Egypt and the Indus valley, the first urban settlements were built around irrigated farmland. Flooded terrace fields for rice, corn ...

Think about walking through ruins that have witnessed empires rise and fall, where kings once ruled and civilizations ...

A gigantic shadow rises, silent and flat, across the alluvial plain of southern present-day Iraq, barely fifteen kilometers from the Iranian border. For centuries, the outlines of a cyclopean wall, ...

From the perspective of security studies, wars rarely originate in abstract ideas or ideological declarations. More often, ...

In a study published in the journal Iraq, Dr. Troels Arbøll analyzed medical prescriptions from ancient Mesopotamia to ...

Unlike the Egyptian pyramids, ziggurats were not places of royal burials, but temples dedicated to the patron deity of a city ...

Gender-ambiguous people in ancient Mesopotamia were powerful and important members of society more than four millennia ago.

New analysis of ancient Mesopotamian medical prescriptions suggests that, in a small but striking set of cases, patients were instructed to seek out the sanctuary of a deity as part of their healing ...

Ancient medical texts found in Iraq reveal how Mesopotamian healers sometimes sent patients to sanctuaries as part of treatment.

By Mohammed Atti and Imad Creidi BASRA, Iraq, Jan 30 (Reuters) - In greenhouses and sterile laboratories west of Basra, Iraqi ...