The discovery, first reported by the Observer earlier this week, was made last autumn at Tello in southern Iraq—the modern Arabic name for the ancient Sumerian city of Girsu—and includes more ...

A provocative new theory suggests that the original Garden of Eden may not have been in Mesopotamia, roughly modern-day Iraq, ...

The state archives of the ancient Sumerian site of Girsu, now Tello in the south of Iraq, contain plans of buildings, maps of canals, lists of commodities and the names and professions of citizens.

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As Rey tells the Independent’s Bryony Gooch, the tablets “record all aspects of Sumerian life, and above all they name real ...

Red tape may feel like a modern-day frustration, but according to archaeologists, it's been a part of governance for ...

A scientist claims to have 'found' the true location of the Garden of Eden, but reckons it's in a different part of the world ...

A provocative new theory suggests that the original Garden of Eden may not have been in Mesopotamia, roughly modern-day Iraq, as has been long-assumed — but rather in Egypt, under the towering shadow ...

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Neither Sarah nor Hagar/Ha-jar are mentioned by name in the Qur’an, but the story of Ha-jar’s exile from Abraham’s home is traditionally understood to be referred to in a line from Ibrāhīm’s prayer in ...

A provocative new theory suggests that the original Garden of Eden may not have been in Mesopotamia ... is the ancient Greek name for the Nile. Ancient historian Titus Flavius Josephus also ...