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

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 ...

The cymbals were excavated from a building dating to the third millennium BCE, associated with the Umm an-Nar culture. Though musical instruments are rarely preserved in archaeological contexts due to ...

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.

In India, this fruit is offered to both Durga and Ganesha. In the Ganesha Bhujangam Stotra, a line in the verse describes ...

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

TEHRAN - For the first time, aerial mapping and imaging have been conducted over key archaeological sites in Jiroft, a region renowned for its Bronze Age ruins dating back to the 3rd millennium BC.

Reading "The Story of Perfume," whether in chunks or page by page, provides a fascinating take on how we’ve arrived at the ...

They fought the Egyptians, sacked Babylon, and built elaborate cities. Then the Hittites vanished. Today, new discoveries are ...

As Iraq fitfully rebuilds, a groundbreaking exhibition is showcasing that nation’s rich roots in Mesopotamia ... and stunning survey of early Bronze Age art may be behind schedule but could ...