Mumbai: Trump may have recently lowered duties on Indian spices but centuries before US tariffs, Roman-occupied England taxed ...

They tackled Brexit head-on, survived Covid, coped with the impact of the war in Ukraine and battled rising costs. The latest ...

A new study reveals that the Halafian culture of northern Mesopotamia (c. 6200–5500 BCE) produced the earliest systematic ...

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WHY IRAQ? WHY NOW? Long overlooked and often misunderstood, Iraq is re-emerging as a destination of profound cultural and historical significance. Known as the heart of ancient Mesopotamia - where ...

Chogha Zanbil was first spotted from a surveillance airplane in 1935. The excavated complex was discovered to be one of the few ziggurats built outside Mesopotamia. The ruins of the ancient Elamite ...

The fear of vampires did not begin with Dracula. Several thousand years ago, the ancient Mesopotamians had already recorded ...

A new book argues that civilizations built on centralized wealth and power contain the seeds of their own destruction.

Hotter temperatures and a series of droughts in what is now Pakistan and India fragmented one of the world’s major early civilisations, providing a "warning shot" for today ...

According to National Geographic, the map depicts distances between gates in the wall surrounding the Mesopotamian city of Nippur, but for decades experts questioned its accuracy. The locations of ...

A symposium on Sumerian civilization and literature was recently held at Peking University, bringing together scholars and experts from leading universities and research institutions across China to ...