TEHRAN - Archaeologists in Iraq have recently uncovered hundreds of ancient artifacts dating back to the eras of ancient ...

Scientists have deciphered the world’s oldest map — and they believe it may lead them to the location of Noah’s Ark.

Get your Indiana Jones-style fedora ready for a modern-day armchair expedition of places rediscovered after centuries—and ...

The cuneiform tablet from the 6th century BC shows an aerial view map of Mesopotamia — roughly modern-day Iraq — and what ...

Outside the biblical tradition, Babylon intrigued Greek and Roman writers, who added to the rich store of legends that have come down to the present day ... in what is now Iraq.

I'm standing in a basement kitchen prodding at a sheep's liver, looking for marks on its smooth surface. People crowd around ...

More than two-and-a-half thousand years ago, this city -- then known as Nineveh -- was the capital of Assyria, which ruled much of the modern Middle East. -The Assyrians built the first huge ...

A recet video by the British Museum described how its cuneiform instructions could be followed to find the resting place of ...

Iraq's northern border is with Turkey while Saudi Arabia and Kuwait are situated to the south. Israel, Lebanon and the Mediterranean Sea are only 200 miles away to the west. Modern day Iraq ...

The ancient Mesopotamian city of Babylon has been declared a Unesco World Heritage Site. Iraq had been lobbying ... he also built an extravagant modern palace for himself on another part of ...

In a significant advancement for archaeology in Iraq, an excavation expedition in the historic ... Giddan/Eddana, The Forgotten Twin City of Dura-Europos The ancient city of Dura-Europos in modern-day ...

The tiny Mideast nation of Kuwait has banned the release of the video game “Call of Duty: Black Ops 6,” which features the ...