On 22nd anniversary, Iraq recalls National Museum looting (Apr 10, 2003). 15k+ items lost, 8k+ still missing despite recovery efforts. A major cultural tragedy.

A new exhibition opening in Paris on Friday showcases archaeological artifacts from Gaza, once a major commercial crossroads ...

University College London, the University of Central Lancashire, Ege University, and other institutions have discovered that ...

The event, part of the PCMS Education Program, served as a prelude to Ferguson and Jackson’s Philadelphia Chamber Music ...

And while some people may seem content with the story as it stands, our view is that there exist countless mysteries, scientific anomalies and surprising artifacts that have yet to be discovered and ...

A passerby discovered a rare Viking-era iron bracelet in a wetland on the Swedish island of Öland. The open-ended bracelet style is rare in large part because of the use of iron. Officials plan ...

“These are the spreadsheets of empire, the very first material evidence of the very first empire in the world,” Sébastien Rey, the British Museum’s curator for ancient Mesopotamia and ...

Ancient Greek and Egyptian artifacts found in the biblical city of Megiddo. Credit: Immanuel Giel / CC BY-SA 4.0 Archaeologists have discovered new evidence at the ancient city of Megiddo in northern ...

Soon spectacular artifacts from the excavation were on ... Ur is like the Springfield of ancient Mesopotamia—many regions had a city with that name. The biblical text itself seems to place ...

A team of archaeologists in Iraq, led by Sebastian Rey, the British Museum’s curator of ancient Mesopotamia, has uncovered compelling evidence of the empire’s formidable bureaucracy.

And while some people may seem content with the story as it stands, our view is that there exist countless mysteries, scientific anomalies and surprising artifacts that have yet to be discovered and ...

Around 2300 B.C.E., the Mesopotamian king Sargon—a native ... The site’s missing or decontextualized artifacts previously made for fuzzy conclusions about the Akkad government.