Archaeologist Eckart Frahm didn't have much time to determine where the 4,000-year-old clay tablets had come from. Homeland Security officials had given him just 2 1/2 days in a dimly lit New York ...

Drone footage of the Khani Masi plain in the Garmian Province, Kurdistan Region of Iraq, taken in 2018. Credit: Sirwan Regional Project and Dr. Elise Laugier Drone footage of the Khani Masi plain in ...

BABYLON, Iraq – Standing next to the ruins of the ancient city of Babylon, the U.S. ambassador inaugurated a provincial reconstruction team in central Iraq on Monday – launching a civilian-led ...

Archaeologists in Iraq recently uncovered evidence suggesting that Christians co-existed with a now-little-known religion. The discovery, announced by Goethe University Frankfurt in Germany, was made ...

BEIRUT (AP) — A system of thousands of ridges and canals across a floodplain in southern Iraq has long been believed to be the remnant of a massive agricultural system built by slave labor. Now an ...

ICE returned 3,800 ancient artifacts, including cuneiform tablets, cylinder seals, and clay bullae, to the Republic of Iraq. (ICE photo) U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) returned 3,800 ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. BEIRUT (AP) — A system of thousands of ...