Two small clay cylinders, pulled from the soil of central Iraq, have given Nebuchadnezzar II his first clear voice at the ...

Outline of Sumerian boat’s hull visible in the sand, Uruk, Iraq(German Archaeological Institute/Mayssoun Issa) An Iraqi-German team recently excavated the remnants of an ancient boat that was exposed ...

At the site of the ancient Sumerian city of Girsu in present-day Tello, in southern Iraq, stands a mound known as Tablet Hill. In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, French ...