Many millennia ago, the tides turned for ancient Sumerians who built the first civilization - literally. Rising in southern Mesopotamia around 6,000 years ago, Sumer bridged a network of city-states ...

Beneath the rugged mountains of southeastern Iran, archaeologists are carefully unearthing traces of a Bronze Age society that could upend the accepted narrative of where writing and urban life began.

In ancient times, Mesopotamia, meaning 'land between two rivers', was a vast region that lay between the Tigris and Euphrates river systems, and it is where civilization emerged over 7,000 years ago.

As Iraq fitfully rebuilds, a groundbreaking exhibition is showcasing that nation’s rich roots in Mesopotamia, the region that gave birth to the world’s first urban civilization some 5,000 years ago.

FREDERICK N. BOHRER Orientalism and Visual Culture: Imagining Mesopotamia in Nineteenth-Century Europe Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003. 383 pp.; 79 b/w ills. $95.00 DOUGLAS R. NICKEL ...

Mesopotamia Cultural Center evicted from its building by force As the time given to the İstanbul Mesopotamia Cultural Center to leave its building of 18 years expired today, the building was blockaded ...