An ancient poem written in the dying days of Mesopotamia has been rediscovered after more than 2,000 years. Researchers at ...

In the course of a collaboration with the University of Baghdad, LMU's Enrique Jiménez has rediscovered a text that had been ...

The Cyrus Cylinder is often considered the first charter of human rights, inscribed with the words of King Cyrus the Great, the founder of the Achaemenid Empire.

Ur (present-day Tell el-Muqayyar in Iraq), south of Uruk where the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers run into the Persian Gulf, was founded sometime in the fourth millennium B.C.

RIP: Alexander died in Babylon -- modern-day Iraq -- at the age of just 32 after a mysterious two-week fever. Karar Essa/Anadolu Agency/Getty Images Atlantis awaits: His tomb in Alexandria is ...

RUINS OF BABYLON, Iraq, Oct 28 ... Modern maintenance work on some of Babylon's monuments used concrete and cement to repair damaged facades and ... reaching billions of people worldwide every day.

RIP: Alexander died in Babylon -- modern-day Iraq -- at the age of just 32 after a mysterious two-week fever. Karar Essa/Anadolu Agency/Getty Images. Atlantis awaits: ...