The Ziggurat of Ur is a Neo-Sumerian ziggurat in what was the city of Ur near Nasiriyah, in present-day Dhi Qar Province, Iraq. The structure was built during the Early Bronze Age but had crumbled to ...

Correspondence of the Kings of Ur (CKU), also known as the Royal Correspondence of Ur, is a collection of 24 literary letters written in the Sumerian language and ...

Only Montblanc has the legacy, and storytelling chops to craft a watch that reveres humanity’s first documented author, ...

Most ziggurats were located in the center of the city and they were also at ... building was confined to the southern ...

While Mesopotamia was sprouting city-states along the Tigris and Euphrates rivers and building massive monuments like the ...

famous for compiling the world’s first legal code—enabled Babylon to eclipse the Sumerian capital, Ur, as the region’s most powerful city. Although Babylon declined after Hammurabi’s death ...

When we talk about a phalanx in a military context, we automatically think of Alexander the Great’s Macedonian army, with its ...

Researchers discover that ancient cylinder seals may hold the key to decoding undeciphered proto-cuneiform signs.

Notable examples include the Great Ziggurat of Ur near Nasiriyah, the Ziggurat of Akar Kuf, the ruined Etemenanki in Babylon (possibly the inspiration for the biblical Tower of Babel), and Chonga ...