Explore Mesopotamia, a civilization that flourished for more than 3,000 years. Mesopotamians built the first complex urban societies; developed writing, literature, and law; and united vast ...

Archaeologists working at a long-buried city in northern Iraq have unearthed clues that could rewrite part of Mesopotamia’s hidden story. The site, Kurd Qaburstan, sits in the Erbil region and may ...

McCarron’s new book, The Wounded Tigris: A River Journey through the Cradle of Civilization, is the sobering yet ... The lifeblood of ancient Mesopotamia and modern Iraq is dying. The combination of ...

This country, which is known as the Cradle of Civilisation, is not Greece or Rome, not even Egypt - but Iraq. Originally known as Mesopotamia, the land was profoundly fertile thanks to the great ...