Only through the efforts of researchers from the British Museum was the knowledge inscribed on it unraveled. The map depicts Mesopotamia at the center, surrounded by two rings symbolizing water.

This collection, it is generally thought, was the world’s first known “museum”. Between Two Rivers, by Oxford scholar Moudhy Al-Rashid, tells the story of ancient Mesopotamia, a period in ...

now held in the British Museum, London, was found. Photograph by Werner Forman, GTRES This story appears in the January/February 2017 issue of National Geographic History magazine. Mesopotamia ...

For many, the prospect of a career at the prestigious British Museum was unthinkable ... an expert in the cuneiform script of ancient Mesopotamia, but also made a discovery that turned ...

While the texts may not be great masterpieces of Sumerian literature, like the Epic of Gilgamesh, the British Museum’s curator for ancient Mesopotamia, director of the Girsu Project, Sébastien ...

EXPECTATION of the importance of the results likely to be obtained by the joint expedition of the British Museum and the British ... Tell Arpachiyah in northern Mesopotamia under Mr. M.

In the British Museum we have a treasure-store of such ... two hard-to-learn languages and the whole of ancient Mesopotamia is at your feet.

Cuneiform tablets from ancient Babylon cover a range of topics, from exorcising ghosts to uncovering the location of Noah’s ...

Review: Between Two Rivers: Ancient Mesopotamia and the Birth of History – Moudhy ... Five Amarna letters on display at the British Museum. Osama Shukir Muhammed Amin/Wikimedia Commons , CC BY We get ...