From the Garden of Eden to Abraham, Daniel in the lions' den and the Tower of Babel, the ancient land now known as Iraq is considered the birthplace of the Bible. Mesopotamia, literally the land ...

Trace Ancient Iraq's beginnings in Mesopotamia. Explore the 'cradle of civilisation' with our gallery and map.

The 3,000-year-old map places the Ark beyond Mesopotamia, in an unknown land where jewels hang from trees instead of fruit.

A newly spotlighted artifact from ancient Mesopotamia is offering a rare window into how one of the world’s earliest ...

Where was Mesopotamia? A map of Mesopotamia, around the time of 1,200 BC, (Map licensed CC BY-SA 4.0 via Wikimedia) Mesopotamia was located between the Euphrates and Tigris rivers in the Middle East.

The map shows Mesopotamia surrounded by a double ring — which the ancient scribe labeled the “bitter river,” a river that created the borders around the Babylonians’ known world.

Short articles on the history of architecture. This week: some of the earliest civilizations known to mankind: Megaliths, Mesopotamia, and Ancient Egypt.

THE mystery surrounding a 3,000-year-old tablet, believed to be the oldest map in the world has finally been solved. The ancient tablet has been deciphered after centuries and offers a glimpse of w… ...

In a first, researchers have sequenced the complete genome of a man from ancient Egypt, and the results reveal that he had ...