Scholars have found a 3,000-year-old Babylonian hymn praising the city, its citizens, and deity Marduk, with the help of A.I.

A team of ancient literature experts have deciphered a Mesopotamain text that was missing for over 1,000 years. Etched on clay tablets, the Hymn to Babylon describes the ancient megacity in “all ...

Baghdad, known as The City of Peace by Arabs, became Iraq's capital in the early 1920s and has a population of around five million people.

View of Bab al-Wastani (Central Gate), also known as Bab Khorasan (Khorasan Gate), the only remaining gate of the old city walls of Baghdad Image: Ahmad Al-Rubaye / AFP© ...

Excavations on unpromising mounds in the Iraqi desert revealed Sumer’s earliest city. Surviving relics and a rebuilt temple have given experts more clues about the ancient metropolis of Eridu.

UMM AL-AJARIB, Iraq — Iraqi archeologists are striving to bring to light what they describe as Mesopotamia’s largest “city of graves,” where the Sumerians buried their dead nearly 5,000 ...