Built around 2100 BCE, the Great Ziggurat of Ur stood at the heart of one of the world’s earliest cities. Dedicated to the moon god Nanna, the monument reflects the political power, religious devotion ...

More than 5,000 years ago, the world’s oldest known writing system emerged in what is now Iraq, establishing the country as the epicenter of recorded human history. […] ...

Around 3300 BC, humans entered a new era that would change history forever. Bronze replaced stone, writing emerged, trade ...

Deep in the deserts of Iraq, the lost city of Charax Spasinou has finally been found. It seems it had been hiding under the Earth for more than a mill.

Recent excavations and findings in Haryana related to the Indus Valley Civilisation have sparked fresh curiosity. The discoveries by the Archaeological Survey of India could reshape established ...

The research suggests the Indus Valley Civilisation could be far older than previously believed, not just by a few centuries, but by thousands of year.

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An 8,000-year-old pottery vessel has revealed that Mesopotamians were using mathematics years before numbers and writing were invented, according to a recent study. At such a critical moment in US ...

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One of the last cities ever founded by Alexander the Great, later dubbed Charax Spasinou, has finally been rediscovered.