The clay tablets are the first of their kind found in the ... region in northeast Iraq. A significant portion of human development and history may be traced back to the ancient civilization ...

Archaeologists from the British Museum and Iraq have uncovered over 200 4,000-year-old cuneiform tablets at Girsu, shedding ...

The finds, which also include dozens of clay sealings, contain details of a metric system used to measure resources, as well ...

Researchers found thousands of ancient irrigation canals up to 5.6 miles (9 kilometers) long carved into the landscape near Basra in Iraq, which at the time was the Eridu region of Mesopotamia.

The jar was found in Khujut Rabu just outside Baghdad and is composed ... onto the surface of another (silver), a method still practiced in Iraq today.

Settled around 4500 B.C.E. in modern-day Iraq ... Museum’s curator for ancient Mesopotamia, tells the Observer’s Dalya Alberge. The Girsu Project researchers found more than 200 tablets ...