Over 5,000 years ago, in the scorching heart of ancient Mesopotamia, the city of Uruk rose to become the largest and most advanced settlement in the world. Home to nearly 80,000 people, it boasted ...

The origins of writing in ancient Mesopotamia and beyond may rest on a group of cylindrical seals. A team of archeologists from the University of Bologna in Italy has identified a series of ...

In 2022, archeologists unearthed what appeared to be the oldest intact reed boat. It was found buried in a sediment-filled former channel of the Euphrates River, near the ancient city of Uruk, in the ...

The origins of writing in Mesopotamia lie in the images imprinted by ancient cylinder seals on clay tablets and other artifacts. A research group from the University of Bologna has identified a series ...

Researchers scouring the ancient Kani Shaie site located a monumental building that they said could be a cultic space. The architecture of the site mimics that of nearby Uruk, showing a potential link ...

The German archaeological mission, led by Dr. Margret van Es, has concluded its activities in the historic city of Uruk (modern-day Warka in Iraq) during the spring 2025 season. The work has focused ...

A monumental structure, whose foundations date back to the dawn of urbanization in the Fertile Crescent, has been unearthed at the Kani Shaie site in the Kurdistan region of northeastern Iraq (in the ...

Unlike the Egyptian pyramids, ziggurats were not places of royal burials, but temples dedicated to the patron deity of a city ...

The exhibition invites visitors to take a walk through the world’s first megacity. Not only was writing invited in Uruk over 5000 years ago; the basis for today’s urban living was also laid there.