A lyre in a treasure-laden royal tomb discovered in Mesopotamia is the earliest stringed instrument ever found. Skip to main ... A bull-headed music maker played for Mesopotamian royalty 4,500 ...

Dating from 2600-2300 B.C., a decorative bull's head of gold and lapis lazuli adorns a lyre discovered in the tomb of Queen Puabi in Ur. Photograph courtesy of Penn Museum By Manuel Molina Martos ...

Lead bull figurine (left); Mesopotamian foundation peg (right) In southern Turkey’s Amuq Valley, a curious one-inch-tall lead figurine unearthed at a rural Bronze Age site is giving ...

Bartle Bull’s “Land Between the Rivers” is a sweeping and superbly written epic, from Gilgamesh fortifying Uruk, the “ur-city of all humanity,” around 2700 B.C. to the murder of Iraq’s ...

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Set at an archaeological dig near Baghdad, Murder in Mesopotamia. is one of Christie’s most directly inspired by her real-life travels. The story follows Hercule Poirot as he investigates the ...

This is a companion volume and sequel to Early Mesopotamia and Iran: Contact and Conflict, c. 3500-1600 BC. "Funded by a gift from Raymond and Beverly Sackler." Published for the Trustees of the ...

Mesopotamia (say “mess-oh-put-ay-me-ah ... The statue on the right is a human-headed winged bull from Assyria, Louvre Museum. (Photo by Ninara licensed CC BY 2.0 via Flickr) ...