"One of the [tombs] contained a clay coffin with a small headless figurine of a pregnant woman," Muhammad Lashkri, director ...

New discoveries by a UCF researcher and her team at the ancient Mesopotamian site of Kurd Qaburstan, including clay tablets with ancient cuneiform writing, a game board and large structural remains, ...

Authorities in Iraq recovered rare gold coins, manuscripts and hundreds of antiquities during operations across six provinces ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. For over 100 years, archaeologists have been flummoxed by a set of symbols discovered at an ancient temple in Iraq — until now. An ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Photo Credit: iStock Archaeologists working in northern Iraq believe they may have uncovered the remains of an ancient city whose ...

This video shows the ancient archaeological site of Samarra in Saladin Governorate, Iraq, where the remains of palaces, mosques, residential buildings, and defensive walls spread across a vast area ...

A decade after jihadists ransacked Iraq's famed Nimrud site, archaeologists have been painstakingly putting together its ancient treasures, shattered into tens of thousands of tiny fragments. Once the ...

Restoration work has begun at the Ziggurat of Ur, a UNESCO-listed ancient Sumerian site in Iraq’s Dhi Qar province, as ...

Beirut — Declassified 1970s-era U.S. spy satellite imagery has led a British-Iraqi archeological team to what they believe is the site of a seventh-century battle that became decisive in the spread of ...

A researcher claims to have decoded an ancient set of symbols found in Iraq that have long puzzled experts. Image from the New York Public Library For over 100 years, archaeologists have been ...

One of three clay cuneiform tablets discovered at the Middle Bronze Age site of Kurd Qaburstan in northeast Iraq. It was found in a debris-filled corridor in the lower town palace. Early ...