On May 2, 2003, shortly after the invasion of Iraq, London’s Metropolitan Police raided an antiquities dealer and seized eight artifacts they believed had been obtained through illicit channels. It’s ...

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Born in 634 BC in what is now called Neo-Babylonia, Nebuchadnezzar II would one day become one of the greatest ancient Babylonian kings. The first-born son of his predecessor Nabopolassar, from a ...

An accountancy firm in Yorkshire has agreed to join a professional services group. BHP has agreed to join Sumer, a major mid-market professional services group, in what is being described as "one of ...

Outline of Sumerian boat’s hull visible in the sand, Uruk, Iraq(German Archaeological Institute/Mayssoun Issa) An Iraqi-German team recently excavated the remnants of an ancient boat that was exposed ...

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Chogha Zanbil was first spotted from a surveillance airplane in 1935. The excavated complex was discovered to be one of the few ziggurats built outside Mesopotamia. The ruins of the ancient Elamite ...