6 December 2024
New excavations of the 4th-millennium B.C settlement at the archaeological site of Shakhi Kora, located in the Iraqi Kurdistan region...
22 November 2024
Johns Hopkins University researchers uncovered evidence of the oldest alphabetic writing in human history. The writing was etched onto finger-length...
6 November 2024
Researchers from the University of Bologna have discovered an association between proto-cuneiform and even older stone images engraved on ancient...
28 October 2024
A recent British Museum video reveals that the “oldest map of the world in the world” on a clay tablet...
16 October 2024
The Iraqi State Board of Antiquities and Heritage (SBAH) announced that 478 artifacts were uncovered during an excavation expedition in...
10 August 2024
Researchers successfully deciphered 4,000-year-old cuneiform tablets discovered over a century ago in what is now Iraq. The tablets, housed at...
8 March 2024
Archaeologists excavating the Rabana-Merquly mountain fortress in what is present-day Iraqi Kurdistan suggest that it may also have served as...
29 January 2024
Archaeologists discovered two temples, with one buried over the other, during excavations at Girsu, a Sumerian city in southeastern Iraq...
28 December 2023
Is it possible to say who was the first queen in history? Given the size and diversity of human civilization,...
19 December 2023
Ancient Mesopotamian bricks reveal the details of a curious strengthening of the Earth’s magnetic field, according to a new study...
