Beneath the rugged mountains of southeastern Iran, archaeologists are carefully unearthing traces of a Bronze Age society ...

the ancient city took shape before my eyes. Ruins coalesced like a blueprint into housing districts, temple walls and occasional monumental buildings. Most dramatic was the ziggurat, which is some ...

Mesopotamia, located in the fertile valley between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers, was one of the cradles of civilization ...

short-lived Sumerian state. But what really intrigued Safar and Lloyd was what lay hidden beneath the remains of that ziggurat. (They were scouting for oil in Iran. They found an ancient temple ...

They have determined some temples took the form of ziggurats—massive stepped ... bloomed along the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers in ancient Mesopotamia, none was grander than Babylon.

Daily sunrise was very important in ancient Mesopotamia. It was connected to the idea of destiny and associated with the birth of the universe. Rituals for the sun god Shamash often involved the ...

the ancient capital of Mesopotamia. The artefact cycled through several owners, including Symes, before entering the Met’s permanent collection in 1989. “Through the Museum’s cooperation wit ...