Between Two Rivers, by Oxford scholar Moudhy Al-Rashid, tells the story of ancient Mesopotamia, a period in world history sometimes known as a “forgotten age”. The world’s first known museum ...

Emerging from communities on the banks of the Tigris, in present-day Iraq, the Assyrians had conquered Babylon and Egypt and ruled in the Mesopotamian region from around 1300-600 B.C. At the dig ...

Foreign Minister Gideon Sa’ar on Sunday afternoon appealed to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, requesting an urgent discussion on his proposal to cancel 200 shekel notes or, alternatively ...

What does it take to decipher an extinct writing system? If Joshua Hammer’s new book The Mesopotamian Riddle: An archaeologist, a soldier, a clergyman, and the race to decipher the world’s ...

It is named after the Mesopotamian goddess of beer and fermentation. Ninkasi's Tricerahops is a Double IPA. Although I wasn't familiar with Ninkasi or Tricerahops, I guessed the answer was either ...

This theory was based on the idea that by the early Bronze Age, Mesopotamian societies were ruled by kings and organized into social hierarchies. But the new study complicates that idea.

As Iraq fitfully rebuilds, a groundbreaking exhibition is showcasing that nation’s rich roots in Mesopotamia, the region that gave birth to the world’s first urban civilization some 5,000 ...

Israel’s central bank is set to hold interest rates for a 10th consecutive time, as it monitors a weakening shekel and the state of the war-weakened economy, with higher US tariffs only adding ...

Buried in the Mesopotamian desert, undisturbed for over two millennia lay a hidden key to understanding one of the world’s oldest known civilizations. In 1854 British official John George Taylor ...

This aligns with Foreign Minister Gideon Sa'ar's view, after he asked the Governor of the Bank of Israel last week to cancel all 200 shekel bills in order to cripple Hamas's finances.