THE great and inventive people who settled 5,500 years ago in Mesopotamia, the land between the rivers Tigris and Euphrates (now part of Iraq), founded one of the world’s first major civilizations.

On a set of broken clay bowls from northern Mesopotamia, delicate flower patterns have turned out to be something far more radical than decoration. New analysis of this ancient art suggests that early ...

Over 8,000 years ago, early farming communities in northern Mesopotamia were already thinking mathematically—long before numbers were written down. By closely studying Halafian pottery, researchers ...

The world's oldest known botanical art, from the Halafian culture of northern Mesopotamia around 6000 BCE, hides fascinating ...

Introduction : becoming art -- The search for Origins : Mesopotamia and the cradle of civilization -- Uruk : the arts of civilization -- Early Dynastic Sumer : images for people, temples for gods -- ...

When New Art’s Really Old: From the Valley of the Kings to Pompeii to a Rubens in a Paris Closet Wall Panel with a Striding Lion, neo-Babylonian period 605–562 B.C. Glazed brick. Object: H: 99.7 × W: ...

“Art of the First Cities: The Third Millennium B.C. From the Mediterranean to the Indus” examines the flowering of the world’s earliest civilizations in Mesopotamia, which is present-day Iraq.

NEW YORK, May 21 (UPI) -- Just when much of the world is mourning the wartime looting of precious art from Iraqi museums, the Metropolitan Museum has opened an exhibition of more than 400 rare and ...

About 4,500 years ago, an image of the Sumerian storm god Ningirsu was engraved on a silver vessel now on view in the Getty Villa Museum exhibition “Mesopotamia: Civilization Begins.” ...

Long, long ago and far, far away in a country called Mesopotamia (meaning “land between rivers”) many aspects of civilization as we know it today took shape. That crescent between the Tigris and ...

In ancient times, Mesopotamia, meaning 'land between two rivers', was a vast region that lay between the Tigris and Euphrates river systems, and it is where civilization emerged over 7,000 years ago.