An international team of archaeologists and geologists has discovered beneath the foundations of the Ishtar Temple in Assur ...
Discover the history of Iraq's name. Learn why the region was called the 'Cradle of Civilization,' and the changes that led ...
A ziggurat (also spelled ziqqurat) was a raised platform with four sloping sides that looked like a tiered pyramid. Ziggurats were common in ancient Mesopotamia (roughly modern Iraq) from around 4,000 ...
Landscape, climate, population -- The beginnings of sedentary life (ca. 10,000-4000 BCE) -- The first urban society and the use of writing (ca. 4000-3200 BCE) -- City-states and the way toward the ...
Introduction / William R. Polk -- The illicit trade in looted antiquities / Angela H.M. Schuster -- Smuggling and looting in Iraq / Micah Garen and Marie-Hélène Carleton -- A short history of the Iraq ...
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Massive Mesopotamian canal network unearthed in Iraq
Researchers have identified an extensive Mesopotamian canal network that supplied ancient farms in the Eridu region with ...
In a study published in the journal Iraq, Dr. Troels Arbøll analyzed medical prescriptions from ancient Mesopotamia to ...
This article was originally on a blog post platform and may be missing photos, graphics or links. See About archive blog posts. Recent conversations with two American soldiers in Iraq suggested a ...
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