Historical texts that mentioned details about the battle site helped researchers match the images to the lost town of ...

This nation has a rich culture of poetry and epic literature and ... not even Egypt - but Iraq. Originally known as Mesopotamia, the land was profoundly fertile thanks to the great Tigris and ...

He described how early hunter-gatherers settled along the river’s fertile banks, leading to the birth of the world’s first ...

It also comes at the time of a resurgence of archeology in Iraq, a country often referred to as the “cradle of civilization,” but where archeological exploration has been stunted by decades of ...

A link exists between 6,000-year-old engravings on cylindrical seals used on clay tablets and cuneiform, the world’s oldest ...

McCarron’s new book, The Wounded Tigris: A River Journey through the Cradle of Civilization, is the sobering yet often funny and poignant account of their journey. The book is a celebration of Iraq’s ...

Archaeologists have discovered a 5,000-year old tavern in Iraq, complete with a refrigerator ... of the earliest urban centers of the Sumerian civilization, CBS News reported.