This was the office of Salem Abdullah, archaeological director of the ancient city of Assur, which once thrived on this rock as the capital of the Assyrian Empire. Abdullah, who was raised in a ...

The spread of the cult of Marduk across Mesopotamia was proof of Babylon’s prestige. No ancient city was so desired and feared, so admired and denigrated. But in the Hebrew tradition ...

For more than a century, scholars have largely agreed that the oldest cities in the world were built in Mesopotamia ... However, excavations of ancient sites belonging to the Neolithic Cucuteni ...