In the cradle of civilisation, illness wasn’t just a medical problem — it was a supernatural one. That’s why Mesopotamians ...

King Esarhaddon ruled the Neo-Assyrian Empire from 681 to 669 BCE. He was the third ruler of the Sargonid Dynasty, the ...

A collection of artefacts collected 2,500 years ago in modern-day Iraq reveal the forgotten world of Mesopotamia, home to ...

Excavations on unpromising mounds in the Iraqi desert revealed Sumer’s earliest city. Surviving relics and a rebuilt temple ...

Ancient Tel Shiqmona site yields first evidence of large-scale purple dye production centuries before Roman times, possibly ...

The Tomb was located in the North-West Palace of the Ancient city of Kalkhu (modern city of Nimrud). The city of Kalkhu was a capital of the Assyrian Empire for over 150 years until King Sargon moved ...

The museum describes this ancient city as ... In those days, the area that is now Iraq was part of the powerful Assyrian Empire. King Sargon II had a new capital built at Khorsabad near Mosul ...

A team of archaeologists may have discovered evidence of the biblical Battle of Megiddo, where Josiah, the king of Judah, was killed by Egyptian forces in 609 B.C.

Located at Tel Shiqmona in coastal Israel, the facility turned sea snails into purple dye at an industrial scale ...

The daughter of the Neo-Babylonian king Nabonidus ... In chapter one, we are introduced to ancient Mesopotamian history. We’re also introduced to the author herself. Al-Rashid punctuates ...

Archaeologists believe they have uncovered evidence of an ancient biblical battle ... Tel Megiddo was the location where Josiah, the king of Judah, famously fought the Battle of Megiddo in ...