The fear of vampires did not begin with Dracula. Several thousand years ago, the ancient Mesopotamians had already recorded ...

Have you ever wondered where the world’s first city was born? Archaeologists widely recognise a city that is located in southern Mesopotamia (modern-day Iraq). It is known as the first true city in ...

The hunt for the Garden of Eden has usually belonged to theologians and dreamers, not software coders. Yet a computer ...

WHY IRAQ? WHY NOW? Long overlooked and often misunderstood, Iraq is re-emerging as a destination of profound cultural and historical significance. Known as the heart of ancient Mesopotamia - where ...

Steppes Travel has launched its first Iraq tour – a 12-day journey through Mesopotamia's ancient wonders with an artist and ...

It took decades for archaeologists to realize this 3,500-year-old tablet depicts an ancient city at scale. But how did its creators pull that off? Archaeologists from the University of Pennsylvania ...

Chogha Zanbil was first spotted from a surveillance airplane in 1935. The excavated complex was discovered to be one of the few ziggurats built outside Mesopotamia. The ruins of the ancient Elamite ...

Around 2112 B.C., the Sumerian king Ur-Namma (r. 2112–2095 B.C.) united the city-states of southern Mesopotamia into a short-lived kingdom known today as the Third Dynasty of Ur, or Ur III. More than ...

Assyrian cuneiform tablet from Kanesh(Courtesy of the Yale Babylonian Collection/Photography by Alberto Urcia/Text NBC 1907) Harvard University Assyriologist Gojko Barjamovic is currently ...

Humans have sought out relationships since the earliest days of Homo sapiens — but getting married? That's something our ancestors didn't have in mind. Marriage as an institution is likely only ...

There’s no sign of Ron Perlman so far, but Sumerian Six has big Hellboy energy and it’s all the better for it. Imagine Desperados III, but you’ve swapped the Wild West for World War II and you can ...