Mesopotamia, located in the fertile valley between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers, was one of the cradles of civilization around 6000 years ago and the birthplace of the first writing system. Each ...

Before long, they uncovered the remains of an unfinished ziggurat, or step pyramid, built at the end of the third millennium B.C. by a ruler of the 3rd dynasty of Ur, a late, short-lived Sumerian ...

In the early 20th century, architects and artists like Hugh Ferriss drew on the myths and monuments of ancient Babylon to ...

In the early 20th century, architects turned to a newly discovered past to craft novel visions of the future: the ancient history of Mesopotamia. Eva Miller traces how both the mythology of Babel and ...

A reconstruction of Babylon, ca 550 B.C., showing the Marduk temple complex and the Etemenanki as seen from the Euphrates River. Image courtesy of Album / Alamy Stock Photo ...

The Ziggurat of Ur in present-day Iraq, excavated in the 1920s and early 1930s during the period art deco emerged globally, seems to have heavily inspired Dias in both form and motif.

If popular culture helps Americans understand history, there’s good news and bad news for the period known as Reconstruction. The good news: The era’s story is told in two of the biggest ...

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Three days after the University of Richmond's faculty senate censured rector Paul Queally, the board said it would reconsider its decision to leave two controversial names on campus buildings.

Most dramatic was the ziggurat, which is some 85 feet tall and once stood at least twice as high. More than 4,000 years old, it was part of a temple complex dedicated to the god Assur.