Power is often imagined as the ultimate reward respect, control, security, and influence over the world. From ancient kings ...

Rising from the plains of southern Iraq, the Great Ziggurat of Ur was built around 2050 BCE as a sacred link between heaven and earth. Dedicated to the moon god Nanna, it stood at the heart of one of ...

A new study reveals that the Halafian culture of northern Mesopotamia (c. 6200–5500 BCE) produced the earliest systematic ...

Political parties representing the Assyrian people in Iraq established the Assyrian Martyrs' Monument in the city of Simmele ...

Ca. 2300–2000 b.c. The head likely depicts a Mesopotamian ruler and is one of the earliest known life-size lost-wax metal sculptures to survive. It had been thought that the head was virtually solid, ...

The ancient Abu Dhabi Pearl is among the pieces on display at the Zayed National Museum, which opened this week.

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 ...

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

Bay Area leaders and gay rights advocates gathered Monday in San Francisco to honor community members and commemorate World AIDS Day.

Can you chip in? As an independent nonprofit, the Internet Archive is fighting for universal access to quality information. We build and maintain all our own systems, but we don’t charge for access, ...

Unsure how to use gender-neutral pronouns? Here's a brief explainer on pronouns for people who aren't binary-identified, and why they're important. But what exactly are rolling pronouns, and why do ...