Researchers previously assumed that some of the graves at the site were royal burials. A new study presents a different theory, which challenges existing ideas about early class structures ...

Archaeologists working at a long-buried city in northern Iraq have unearthed clues that could rewrite part of Mesopotamia’s hidden story. The site, Kurd Qaburstan, sits in the Erbil region and may ...

Archaeologists in Dahwa, Oman, found two strange discs that turned out to be a rare 4,000-year-old musical instrument, ...

Başur Höyük is a Bronze Age community dated to between 3100 BC and 2800 BC. Previous studies have hinted that this period corresponded to the rise of kingship in ancient Mesopotamia as part of ...

Buccellati rightly states that “We are the heirs of Mesopotamian perception and political experience.” Modern civilization, ...

The find reveals shared musical traditions that connected cultures and supported trade across the Arabian Gulf.

In ancient Mesopotamia during the Bronze Age, as the name of the period suggests, bronze tools were the main tools used, and copper, the material used in making them, was an important commodity.

Credit: Photograph by permission of the Başur Höyük Research Project; Cambridge Archaeological Journal 2025 Five millennia ago, Bronze Age people in Mesopotamia built elaborate stone tombs full ...

The cymbals were excavated from a building dating to the third millennium BCE, associated with the Umm an-Nar culture. Though ...

In the study, "Inequality at the Dawn of the Bronze Age: The Case of Başur Höyük, a 'Royal' Cemetery at the Margins of the Mesopotamian World," published in the Cambridge Archaeological Journal ...