Security consultant Aran Dharmeratnam examines the struggles of Iraq’s Kurds and a relationship with Britain forged in ...

Excerpted with permission from the publisher The Indus: Lost Civilizations, Andrew Robinson, published by‎ Macmillan, an ...

A fishing boat glides quietly across the waters of Iraq's southern marshes, sending gentle ripples shimmering over the ...

Mesopotamia’s first cities survived drought, war, and empire, until the Gutians swept down from the mountains and plunged the ...

“Journalism leads to everything, provided you leave it,” said journalist, writer and academician Jules Janin (1804–1874). I still haven’t crossed that threshold: I obtained my press card in 1988 and, ...

Ninurta was a Mesopotamian deity associated with war, agriculture, and the scribal arts. He could be thought of as a defender of civilization against chaos. Ninurta was originally revered in southern ...

Today, trans people face politicization of their lives and vilification from politicians, media and parts of broader society. But in some of history's earliest civilizations, gender-diverse people ...

Naram-Sin, the conqueror king of the Akkadian Empire, looms large in the ancient annals of Mesopotamia. His reign in the 23rd century BC marked a period of military conquests and cultural achievements ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Papyrus disintegrates, parchment and paper burn, but clay tablets can survive fire — even the almighty ...

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 sequenced ...

Archaeologists have uncovered rare artifacts from the Paleolithic era at Ulukoy Cave in Türkiye’s southeastern Mardin province, revealing the earliest known evidence of human activity in northern ...

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