Rising from the plains of southern Iraq, the Great Ziggurat of Ur was built around 2050 BCE as a sacred link between heaven and earth. Dedicated to the moon god Nanna, it stood at the heart of one of ...

The 12th Duhok International Film Festival opened with 110 films, focused on climate change, and featuring Spain as the guest ...

Around 2112 B.C., the Sumerian king Ur-Namma (r. 2112–2095 B.C.) united the city-states of southern Mesopotamia into a short-lived kingdom known today as the Third Dynasty of Ur, or Ur III. More than ...

Ca. 2300–2000 b.c. The head likely depicts a Mesopotamian ruler and is one of the earliest known life-size lost-wax metal sculptures to survive. It had been thought that the head was virtually solid, ...

Human figures in 'Stone Hills,' where the Bible's Abraham settled, attest to the start of human settlements 11,000 years ago: ...

The fear of vampires did not begin with Dracula. Several thousand years ago, the ancient Mesopotamians had already recorded ...

For over 3,000 years, civilizations that never met and never shared a language somehow imagined the same terrifying place: a realm of judgment, suffering, and cosmic consequence. From Mesopotamia’s ...

The rapper's four-part opus on the imprisoned hip-hop mogul will hit the streamer on Dec. 2. By Kevin Dolak Sean "Diddy" Combs during a 2007 White Party in East Hampton, New York. Photo by Bryan ...

On Wednesday, one of the all-time greatest and most entertaining music documentaries will be made available in remastered and expanded form on Disney Plus. The Beatles Anthology originally aired on ...

We still have a few days until Black Friday officially gets underway, but Amazon has already started dropping some incredible streaming deals ahead of the big shopping day. Fans of PBS, Ken Burns, and ...

The holidays are upon us and that hopefully means a little more time for rest and relaxation and time chilling on the couch. It’s a good time to let the tryptophan kick in and catch up on music ...