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This statue covered in gold leaf and semiprecious stones may have been used in ancient Mesopotamian sunrise rituals.

Around 2,500 years ago, a princess living in what is now modern-day Iraq collected a number of artefacts, including a statue, a boundary stone and a mace head. The items, which show signs of preservation, date from around 2100 BCE to 600 BCE. This collection, it is generally thought, was…

Iraq unveils plans to build a new church in ancient Ur to attract Christian pilgrims and promote religious tourism, showcasing its rich religious history.

Thousands of artefacts are being shipped back to Iraq, but many more were taken during the post-invasion looting.

It was a random morning in November, and Enheduanna was trending. Suddenly, the ancient Mesopotamian priestess, who had been dead for more than 4,000 years, was a hot topic online as word spread that the first individually named author in human history was … a woman? That may have been…

Women’s achievements and contributions have been routinely neglected, overlooked or misattributed. In my new book, I tell the story of 1,000 of these extraordinary characters missing from history. Here are just a few

Launched at Baselworld 1997, the first Urwerk watches featured the minimalistic "wandering hour", recalling a satellite or planet moving across the sky.

Gold and silver tubes, each more than a metre long, were discovered in North Caucasus