The exhibition focuses attention on the distinctive style and far-reaching influence of the art created by the Sumerians of lower Mesopotamia, a people who founded the first cities, invented ...

When a vast library of texts amassed by Mesopotamian King Ashurbanipal was burned to the ground about 2700 years ago, the clay tablets were preserved by the heat. Selena Wisnom's new book reveals more ...

The origins of ancient art can be traced back to our ... we encounter the monumental achievements of civilizations like ...

Researchers previously assumed that some of the graves at the site were royal burials. A new study presents a different theory, which challenges existing ideas about early class structures ...

They date back to the Akkad period (2300BC-2150BC), which, Rey tells The Art Newspaper ... (centre), the British Museum’s curator of ancient Mesopotamia, and his team Photo by Ellie Atkins ...