The lion lunges forward, its muscular body captured in the massive stone relief, its claws and canines bared with menacing realism. The great king, his bow drawn tight, stands poised to release his ...

A comparison of ASTER classification (left) and surface artifact distribution (right). In the image on the left yellow indicates a greater than fifty percent probability of finding artifacts and ...

The idea of Mesopotamia has intoxicated the West for centuries. Alastair Sooke takes a look at a civilisation where much of modern culture took form. “Everybody has heard of the Hanging Gardens of ...

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When rolled on a moist clay tablet, these engravings left low-relief markings, signifying that the object's owner authorized ...

In ancient times, Mesopotamia, meaning ‘land between two rivers’, was a vast region that lay between the Tigris and Euphrates river systems, and it is where civilization emerged over 7,000 years ago.

The world’s first known author is widely considered to be Enheduanna, a woman who lived in the 23rd century BCE in ancient Mesopotamia (approximately 2285-2250 BCE). Enheduanna is a remarkable figure: ...

Mesopotamia was located between the Euphrates and Tigris rivers in the Middle East. That's where Iraq and parts of Syria and Turkey are today. Have you ever wondered why there are 60 seconds in a ...

Tribune Chronicle / R. Michael Semple Anthony Dilauro, 3, left, holds up a freshly picked strawberry as his mother, Liz Dilauro of Moreland Hills, takes his photograph Friday morning at Ridgeview Farm ...

It's commonplace now, with couples to be found smooching in seemingly every public place. But French kissing may have started for the first time 4,500 years ago in the Middle East. That is the ...