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What was the political and economic importance of the ancient city Alexandria on the Tigris? How was the city laid out? And ...

Scholars deciphered inscriptions on 4,000-year-old tablets more than 100 years after they were originally discovered. Omens ...

Two thousand years ago, Alexandria on the Tigris was a flourishing trade centre and regional capital near the Persian Gulf. Today, only its extended rampart is visible in the southern Iraqi landscape.

Restoration work on the rock-cut tomb of Achaemenid king Xerxes I is nearing completion after years of conservation efforts, a local official has said.

This episode revisits ancient sources and archaeological evidence to question the traditional location of the Hanging Gardens of Babylon. New research suggests the gardens may have been built in ...

The Hanging Gardens are one of the most mysterious ancient wonders. Drawing on Greek and Roman texts alongside archaeological evidence from Babylon, this episode examines who may have built the ...

Ancient baked-clay cuneiform cylinders from the Neo-Babylonian period. Credit: Ahmed Ali Jawad et al. / CC BY 4.0 Two ancient cuneiform cylinders uncovered in central Iraq are offering rare insight ...

Announcing the release of From Babylon to Baghdad: Ancient Iraq and the Modern West, a free e-book published by the Biblical Archaeology Society (BAS). This latest publication from BAS comes at a time ...

Although archaeologists have excavated 500,000 cuneiform tablets from Mesopotamian sites over the last two centuries, about half of these texts now in museums around the world haven’t been thoroughly ...