After years of conflict, hundreds of long-lost artefacts have been returned to the Idlib Museum in north-western Syria. One year after long-time ruler Bashar al-Assad was ousted, the transitional ...

The National Museum in Damascus is one of the most significant cultural institutions in the Middle East. Its extensive ...

The British Museum is well placed to refer to the discovery of the Library of Ashurbanipal as "one of the most important" ...

At the site of the ancient Sumerian city of Girsu in present-day Tello, in southern Iraq, stands a mound known as Tablet Hill. In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, French ...

Imagine tasting food from over four thousand years ago, recipes so ancient they were carved into clay tablets before paper ...

The world's first city was built long before the Harappans, and its ruins still stand in a quiet desert far from the usual ...

Excavations at the ancient Anatolian city of Kanesh in Turkey have revealed a district where merchants from the distant Mesopotamian city of Assur in Iraq lived and worked. Some 23,000 cuneiform ...