Iraq's Embassy in Washington celebrated the recovery of a rare, 4,500-year-old Ibex statue. The return highlights the ongoing ...

Eventually, Abu Mohammed and his family reached their breaking point. Water was vanishing on the outskirts of Baghdad, and ...

From the cuneiform writing of Euphrates and Tigris to the pyramids along the Nile, and from the urban grids of the Indus to ...

The Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Republic of Iraq teamed up on research into an ancient sculpture using the lost wax ...

While civilization dates back tens of thousands of years, these are some of the earliest known (and confirmed) rulers.

Themed "Bridging Rivers and Seas, Sharing Wisdom of Civilizations", the 2025 Yangtze River Civilization Forum focused on ...

For centuries, the Garden of Eden has existed on the hazy border between myth and memory. Yet recent developments in archaeological theory and remote sensing technology have added fuel to an age-old ...

The list of countries beginning with the letter “I” exemplifies how geography can surprise us with its intricate patterns.

In the ochre valley of Wadi Ḥaḍramawt, a town named 'Shibam' rises like a skyline carved out of clay — its mud towers ...

Mount Ida in Crete known to locals as Psiloritis, is the location where, according to legend, where Zeus was born ...

Leonard Woolley’s excavation of Ur yielded an archaeologist’s dream: a series of intact burials from one of the world's most important ancient cities. Dating from 2600-2300 B.C., a decorative bull's ...

Biblical archaeologists are using ancient texts and modern technology to uncover possible clues to one of Christianity's ...