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.

It is one of the oldest and greatest stores of knowledge: a vast library of texts amassed by Assyrian King Ashurbanipal, who ruled ancient Mesopotamia about 2700 years ago. But after his death ...

Marked with the administrative details of government, the tablets have illuminated the complicated bureaucracy of an ancient Mesopotamian civilization. The tablets were discovered in the Sumerian ...

At Ancient Origins, we believe that one of the most important fields of knowledge we can pursue as human beings is our beginnings. And while some people may seem content with the story as it stands, ...

Child buried in a cemetery that was once a pottery shop. (photo credit: Egyptian Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities.) The Egyptian Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities announced on Friday the ...

AMMAN — Industrial pottery manufacture was developed in Jordan, southern Levant, Asia Minor, Tunisia and Sardinia. There are different preconditions for a pottery production on an industrial ...

Simultaneously, an Egyptian mission from the Supreme Council of Antiquities (SCA) discovered a Roman pottery workshop in the village of Banaweet in Sohag. The site, believed to have been one of ...

The mummy of a first-century-B.C. individual found in Egypt was not pregnant and did not have cancer, according to a new CT study.

The Great Pottery Throw Down held its final on March 9. The Channel 4 series has crowned its 8th winner. But which potter came out on top? The winner of The Great Pottery Throw Down for 2025 has ...