TEHRAN - Archaeologists working at Qeshlaq Tappeh, a site partially submerged by the Talvar Dam in Iran’s western province of ...

The map shows the ancient land of Mesopotamia, which means land between the rivers, and it is an area of the now Middle East, which, at the time, our ancestors, thought was the whole known world then.

Declassified 1970s-era U.S. spy satellite imagery has led a British-Iraqi archeological team to what they believe is the site ...

About 2,500 years ago, Babylonian traders in Mesopotamia impressed two slanted wedges into clay tablets. The shapes represented a placeholder digit, squeezed between others, to distinguish numbers ...

Regular old vanilla doesn't cut it these days. You gotta get some tasty, chunky bits of something in there for variety. But ...

The Arab Muslim victory at the Battle of al-Qadisiyyah paved the way for the Islamic conquest of Mesopotamia and Persia.

Scientists might be closer to learning who invented the wheel after discovering stone spindle stabilizers in Israel that date ...

Ancient cylinder seals in Mesopotamia shaped the development of proto-cuneiform writing in Uruk around 3000 BCE, linking ...

Declassified 1970s-era U.S. spy satellite imagery has led a British-Iraqi archeological team to what they believe is the site ...

Revered abolitionist Harriet Tubman has been posthumously awarded the rank of general.

U.S. spy satellite imagery has led archeologists to what they believe is the site of a seventh-century battle that was decisive in the spread of Islam in the region.

The history of human writing is being rewritten after archaeologists found the origins of words engraved on 6,000-year-old ...