According to the Sages, it was Esther who asked the Jewish community to write the Megillah, so that they would remember her: ...

It describes Mesopotamia, the "land between the rivers ... In addition to geographical features, the map contains references to Marduk, the Babylonian god of creation, and mythical creatures ...

Some scholars have linked the Tower of Babel with known structures, particularly Etemenaki, a ziggurat dedicated to the Mesopotamian god Marduk, in Babylon. But with all the myth, folktale, and ...

There is always an element of naivete when attempting to extrapolate historical events from books that date back thousands of years. Three Wise Men, Macmillan Poster, 1960. But what exactly is the ...

Researchers have identified an extensive Mesopotamian canal network that supplied ancient farms in the Eridu region with water from the Euphrates river before the first millennium B.C.

A sprawling, hidden network of ancient irrigation canals has been uncovered near the ancient city of Eridu in southern Mesopotamia. Under the leadership of geoarchaeologist Jaafar Jotheri ...

Over 200 canals and 4,000 smaller channels identified in Iraq The system supplied water to farms before the first millennium B.C. A shift in the Euphrates River led to the canals becoming obsolete ...