Only through the efforts of researchers from the British Museum was the knowledge inscribed on it unraveled. The map depicts Mesopotamia at the center, surrounded by two rings symbolizing water.

A recently discovered palace in modern-day Iraq dates back 4,500 years and is said to contain the key to understanding the ...

Dr Evans, a senior lecturer in diaspora history, said antiquities from the British Museum showed how ancient civilizations in Mesopotamia, Egypt, Greece and India all adopted the gesture for ...

now held in the British Museum, London, was found. Photograph by Werner Forman, GTRES This story appears in the January/February 2017 issue of National Geographic History magazine. Mesopotamia ...

In the British Museum we have a treasure-store of such ... two hard-to-learn languages and the whole of ancient Mesopotamia is at your feet.

For many, the prospect of a career at the prestigious British Museum was unthinkable ... an expert in the cuneiform script of ancient Mesopotamia, but also made a discovery that turned ...

A lyre in a treasure-laden royal tomb discovered in Mesopotamia is the earliest stringed instrument ever found.

A lyre in a treasure-laden royal tomb discovered in Mesopotamia is the earliest ... The lyre, which is now on display at the British Museum in London, is a reconstruction that consists of wooden ...