Priests, princes, or plenty? The only way to answer these questions is to dig deep, and this is what archaeologists have done for hundreds of years in the tall mounds of built-up mudbrick that are the ...

The finds, which also include dozens of clay sealings, contain details of a metric system used to measure resources, as well ...

Perched on the edge of a river near the city of Siirt, Türkiye, is an archaeological site that offers a chance to completely ...

The artifacts were excavated from a city dating back to the third millennium B.C.E. by researchers from Iraq and the British ...

Credit: Irak State Board of Antiquities & Heritage Al-Ahmar also highlighted the most significant archaeological findings from this season’s work, which included the discovery of a large number of ...

His term “state-city” emphasizes the overall political ... not just tolerable but actually desirable.” That enabled Mesopotamian rule to be personal and indeed dynastic.

The oldest reference in the first known writing — cuneiform — was not about gods or kings, but about beer. Lots of it. It was ...

Başur Höyük is a site from the early Bronze Age located in Siirt, Turkey, that dates to the late fourth and early third ...

Red tape may feel like a modern-day frustration, but according to archaeologists, it's been a part of governance for millennia. Evidence from ancient Mesopotamia reveals that bureaucratic systems were ...

The artifacts were excavated from a city dating back to ... the British Museum and Iraq’s State Board of Antiquities and Heritage. Around 2300 B.C.E., the Mesopotamian king Sargon—a native ...