Mesopotamia some 6000 years ago, one of the cradle of civilizations and the birthplace of the first writing system. In the fertile valley between the Rivers Tigris and Euphrates the earliest cities ...

Introduction : becoming art -- The search for Origins : Mesopotamia and the cradle of civilization -- Uruk : the arts of civilization -- Early Dynastic Sumer : images for people, temples for gods -- ...

German archaeologists working in Iraq have made a partial map of the ancient site of Uruk and discovered that some of its features are just as described in a famous Sumerian epic poem -- "The Song of ...

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 ...

Have you ever wondered where the world’s first city was born? Archaeologists widely recognise a city that is located in ...

NEW YORK -- Visitors to the Metropolitan Museum of Art's newest exhibit immediately see a large photo of a vase almost 5,000 years old -- and missing since the looting of cultural institutions that ...

NEW YORK, May 21 (UPI) -- Just when much of the world is mourning the wartime looting of precious art from Iraqi museums, the Metropolitan Museum has opened an exhibition of more than 400 rare and ...

“Art of the First Cities: The Third Millennium B.C. From the Mediterranean to the Indus” examines the flowering of the world’s earliest civilizations in Mesopotamia, which is present-day Iraq.

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 ...

The Epic of Gilgamesh, known as the oldest story in history, is thought to have been written in the early 2nd millennium BC, with the original being even older, in the 4th millennium BC. Journalist ...