When Holly Pittman and colleagues from the University of Pennsylvania and University of Pisa returned to Lagash in the fall of 2022 for a fourth season, they knew they'd find more than ceramic ...

A recently interpreted 4,500-year-old marble pillar from ancient Mesopotamia shows that even at the dawn of civilization, people were bickering about their borders. As James Pickford at The Financial ...

NASIRIYAH, Iraq — The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) added Iraq's Ahwar marshes, including the sites of Uruk, Ur and Tell Eridu, to its World Heritage List ...

Researchers discovered an ancient tavern at Lagash in southern Iraq. Lagash Archaeological Project Archaeologists have unearthed the remains of an ancient tavern that’s nearly 5,000 years old in ...

A team of researchers studying the archeological site of Lagash in southern Iraq uncovered a public eating space that dates back to 2700 B.C. Lagash Archaeological Project Archeologists unearthed a ...

A ground-penetrating eye in the sky has helped to rehydrate an ancient southern Mesopotamian city, tagging it as what amounted to a Venice of the Fertile Crescent. Identifying the watery nature of ...

BAGHDAD (AP) — An international archeological mission has uncovered the remnants of what is believed to be a 5,000-year-old restaurant or tavern in the ancient city of Lagash in southern Iraq. The ...

In 2023, an Italo-American archaeological team announced their discovery of a 5,000-year-old tavern in Lagash, an ancient city-state capital in southern Iraq. A cuneiform tablet found among the ruins ...

Working over a massive oven, cooks prepared meals in bulk and placed them on nearby shelves, ready to be served. Diners came to sit on the tavern’s benches, eating and drinking their fill. The scene ...

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The traditional model of early Mesopotamian urban development holds that cities were compact settlements that expanded out from a central monumental religious complex. However, a recent remote-sensing ...

The ruins of ancient Lagash, one of the first urban centres of the Sumerian civilisation, is located near the modern day city of Nasiriyah in Iraq. Ancient refrigeration system, an oven, benches, ...