30 August 2025
Drought Unveils Lost Hellenistic-Era City and Cemetery Beneath Mosul Dam
Severe drought conditions in northern Iraq have uncovered a remarkable archaeological treasure. The discovery, revealed as…
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Mesopotamia
3 July 2025
AI Uncovers Lost Babylonian Hymn After 3,000 Years — A Glorious Ode to the Ancient City
Archaeologists and AI experts uncover a 3,000-year-old hymn praising Babylon's grandeur, revealing rare insights into ancient…
2 July 2025
From Türkiye to Iraq: Returning 6,000-Year-Old Cuneiform Tablets That Unlock Ancient Mesopotamia
Türkiye has made a significant contribution to cultural diplomacy and historical justice by returning six ancient…
15 May 2025
Archaeologists Unearth Monumental Relief Depicting Assyrian King and Major Deities in Ancient Nineveh
A team of archaeologists from Heidelberg University has made an extraordinary discovery in the ancient city…
13 April 2025
Neo-Assyrian Writing Boards: The Role of Beeswax, Orpiment, and Carbon Black in 7th Century BC Writing Techniques
Recent scientific investigations into the writing boards excavated from the ancient Assyrian city of Nimrud have…
8 March 2025
Archaeologists Uncover Extensive Ancient Irrigation Network in Eridu, the World’s First City
Recent research by a multidisciplinary team of archaeologists and geologists has revealed that the Eridu region…
29 December 2024
Archaeologists Discovered Remarkably Preserved Shrines inside the Assyrian Temple of Ninurta, in Nimrud
Recent archaeological work in Nimrud, led by the Penn Museum in collaboration with Iraqi archaeologists, has…
26 December 2024
A new magnetic survey of the ancient Assyrian capital of Khorsabad has revealed a 127-room villa twice the size of the U.S. White House
Archaeologists in northern Iraq have conducted an extensive magnetic survey using an exhaustive magnetic survey at…
6 December 2024
Excavations at a 4th millennium BC settlement uncover evidence for the emergence and rejection of the earliest state institutions in Iraq
New excavations of the 4th-millennium B.C settlement at the archaeological site of Shakhi Kora, located in…
22 November 2024
Oldest known alphabet unearthed in ancient Syrian city -500 years older than thought
Johns Hopkins University researchers uncovered evidence of the oldest alphabetic writing in human history. The writing…