Priests, princes, or plenty? The only way to answer these questions is to dig deep, and this is what archaeologists have done for hundreds of years in the tall mounds of built-up mudbrick that are the ...

Just over half the world's population shares a river or lake basin with at least one other country. To sustainably manage ...

It shows as countries, like the U.S., pull out of the global institutions, such as the World Health Organization, and drop their support for global climate ... fed by the Tigris River in what ...

In an instant, dark clouds engulfed the sky, obscuring the scorching sun in Al-Hizamat, a small village near Afak district in Iraq's Diwaniyah Governorate. Rain was imminent. Almost. A few minutes ...

The teenagers’ skeletons were unearthed at the cemetery of Basur Höyük where researchers previously uncovered evidence of “grand funerary rituals” and the burial of “spectacular” quantities of ...

Authorities have suspended water distribution in the district of Koya east of Erbil, after the detection of crude oil contamination in the Lesser Zab River, affecting over 100,000 people, local ...

From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech ... However, the discovery of burials in the upper reaches of the Tigris and Euphrates rivers “complicates this view in many ways ...