Excavations show Christians and Zoroastrians coexisted in 5th-century Mesopotamia, revealed through early architecture at ...

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A new study published in the Journal of World Prehistory reveals that some of humanity's earliest artistic representations of ...

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

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The Royal Tombs of Ur, discovered in the 1920s, contained some of the most elaborate burials in the ancient world. But who were these individuals—and what do their graves tell us about Sumerian ...

According to National Geographic, the map depicts distances between gates in the wall surrounding the Mesopotamian city of Nippur, but for decades experts questioned its accuracy. The locations of ...

The water crisis in Tehran reflects not only this summer’s extreme heat but also several consecutive years of reduced ...

A record number of teams from the Middle East and North Africa have qualified for the 23rd FIFA World Cup, which will take ...

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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 ...