Archaeologists have discovered a vast network of ancient irrigation canals near Eridu in Iraq, regarded as the world’s oldest ...

What emerged was a 1,000-year-old hymn devoted to the Mesopotamian city of Babylon. Babylon was founded around 2000 BCE and was once the largest city in the world.

The historical area called Mesopotamia, meaning "land between two rivers" in ancient Greek, refers broadly to the territory between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers.

WASHINGTON (AP) — Ancient DNA has revealed a genetic link between the cultures of ancient Egypt and Mesopotamia, according to research published Wednesday in the journal Nature. Researchers ...

In the early 20th century, architects turned to a newly discovered past to craft novel visions of the future: the ancient history of Mesopotamia. Eva Miller traces how both the mythology of Babel ...

NASCAR visits Mexico City: What to know about the race, schedule, track layout Autódromo Hermanos Rodríguez in Mexico City will host the first Cup Series race in the country.

¡Bienvenidos a México! The NASCAR Cup Series heads to Mexico City this weekend for the first time. Here's the schedule, track layout and race picks.

Excavations on unpromising mounds in the Iraqi desert revealed Sumer’s earliest city. Surviving relics and a rebuilt temple have given experts more clues about the ancient metropolis of Eridu.

Mesopotamian Masterpieces Exquisite art and artifacts from the world’s earliest civilization are dazzling visitors to New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art ...

Around 1750 BC during the Bronze Age, a man named Nanni, who lived in the ancient Mesopotamian city of Ur , sent a clay tablet containing a complaint to a copper merchant named Eanasir.

A team of archaeologists in Iraq, led by Sebastian Rey, the British Museum’s curator of ancient Mesopotamia, has uncovered compelling evidence of the empire’s formidable bureaucracy. The ...