The survival of Assyrian culture in Armenia is not merely a matter of history or heritage. It is an act of love.

Iraq’s Zagros Mountains. Credit: ninara / Wikimedia Commons / CC BY-SA 2.0 Archaeologists have uncovered a monumental building at the ancient site of Kani Shaie in Iraq, offering new insight into how ...

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.

The Assyrians, known for their military prowess and administrative sophistication, expanded their empire through conquest, establishing one of the largest empires of the ancient world. Their capital ...

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What do you know about Mesopotamia and its role in the Bible? Geography in the Bible may seem relevant only to children’s church school classes, but digging into the actual dirt of the places where ...

Leonard Woolley’s excavation of Ur yielded an archaeologist’s dream: a series of intact burials from one of the world's most important ancient cities. Dating from 2600-2300 B.C., a decorative bull's ...

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Sealed inside a rocky tomb for over four millennia, an Egyptian skeleton has just revealed a hidden chapter of ancient history. A 4,600-year-old skeleton discovered in a sealed tomb in Nuwayrat, Egypt ...

New research has uncovered a striking genetic connection between ancient Egypt and Mesopotamia, shedding light on the movement of people across early civilizations nearly 5,000 years ago. Scientists ...

Ancient DNA has revealed a genetic link between the cultures of ancient Egypt and Mesopotamia, according to research published Wednesday in the journal Nature. Researchers sequenced whole genomes from ...