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 ...
Outline of Sumerian boat’s hull visible in the sand, Uruk, Iraq(German Archaeological Institute/Mayssoun Issa) An Iraqi-German team recently excavated the remnants of an ancient boat that was exposed ...
Assyrian cuneiform tablet from Kanesh(Courtesy of the Yale Babylonian Collection/Photography by Alberto Urcia/Text NBC 1907) Harvard University Assyriologist Gojko Barjamovic is currently ...