Sumerian civilization appears to have evolved in Southern Mesopotamia around 4000 BC, while some historians place it as far ...

On April 1st, Assyrians, Chaldeans, and Syriacs in Iraq celebrate the "Akitu" festival, marking one of the oldest known ...

Prime Minister Masrour Barzani’s public acknowledgment of Akitu reflects the KRG’s commitment to fostering an inclusive ...

Social media is always a storm with new and resurfacing discoveries, including archaeological finds and its most recent fascination is an Ancient Mesopotamian ... gods Šamaš, Marduk, and Ilabrat ...

What about bunnies and eggs The easter eggs are not pagan but an early Christian tradition which began in Mesopotamia. In the season of Lent ... has a name related to the Babylonian high god Marduk.

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 ...

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.

Emerging from communities on the banks of the Tigris, in present-day Iraq, the Assyrians had conquered Babylon and Egypt and ruled in the Mesopotamian region from around 1300-600 B.C. At the dig ...