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Archeologists say a 3,400-year-old city was uncovered in Iraq after extreme drought conditions ... The Bronze Age city — which "could be" the ancient city of Zakhiku, per the release ...

Most of the area now falls in modern-day Iraq. Cities were built along the ... Image caption, A restored Ziggurat in the ancient city of Ur. Mud-brick houses were built around a central courtyard ...

An Honorary Fellow at Oxford University's Wolfson College, Moudhy has spent much of her career translating the stories of the ...

Al-Monitor is an award-winning media outlet covering the Middle East, valued for its independence, diversity and analysis. It is read widely by US, international and Middle East decision makers at the ...

religious and cultural network that linked the ancient cities of Ur in southern Iraq, Mari in Syria, Troy in western Turkey and the IndusValley city of Mohenjo-daro in Pakistan. Originally planned ...

Archaeologists have made a remarkable discovery of thousands of cuneiform tablets at the ancient Sumerian city of Girsu in ...

Archaeologists from the British Museum and Iraq have uncovered over 200 4,000 ... These 4,000-year-old tablets, uncovered at the ancient Sumerian city of Girsu (modern-day Tello), reveal ...

The discovery, first reported by the Observer earlier this week, was made last autumn at Tello in southern Iraq—the modern Arabic name for the ancient Sumerian city of Girsu—and includes more ...

As they read the ancient texts, they realized this city had a name many people would ... that is being drawn. There was an Ur in southern Iraq, but calling it “Abraham’s” is interpretation.

Canadian musician Peter Pringle gave a haunting performance of the first twelve lines of The Exaltation of Inanna in its original Sumerian on a scale replica of the Gold Lyre of Ur, an ancient ...