Researchers have discovered an extensive and remarkably well-preserved system of ancient irrigation canals in the Eridu ...

The translation of ancient Assyrian writing into modern languages was a challenge that had long vexed historians. Three ...

Researchers previously assumed that some of the graves at the site were royal burials. A new study presents a different ...

A roughly 4,800-year-old royal Mesopotamian cemetery in eastern Turkey appears to complicate existing theories about how some ...

The Sumerians were the people of southern Mesopotamia, with their civilization emerging around ... In the following more than 1,000 years, it achieved remarkable accomplishments in politics, religion, ...

A team of archaeologists in Iraq, led by Sebastian Rey, the British Museum’s curator of ancient Mesopotamia, has uncovered compelling evidence of the empire’s formidable bureaucracy.

The event is called Code & Cosmos, and its underlying thesis is that the fields of science and technology, once considered diametrically opposed to religion and spirituality, might converge with ...

Marked with the administrative details of government, the tablets have illuminated the complicated bureaucracy of an ancient Mesopotamian civilization. The tablets were discovered in the Sumerian ...

Friday, March 14, 2025. (Kit Doyle/Religion News Service via AP) Copies of the “Holy Bible” and “Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures” are available to read at the Christian Science Reading ...

Readers discuss the importance of the freedom of religion in a cosmopolitan city, the need for sensible rules to reduce plastic waste, and the ICC’s demand for accountability in Gaza war.

Christians, however, might view it as a warning of the end times. Throughout history, different cultures and religions have attached various meanings to the celestial event, shaping how people ...