At its peak some 3,000 years ago, the ancient Mesopotamian city of Babylon was the largest metropolis on Earth. Renowned for ...

In the course of a collaboration with the University of Baghdad, LMU's Enrique Jiménez has rediscovered a text that had been ...

In the seventh century BCE, at the height of Assyrian imperial power, scribes working under King Ashurbanipal compiled what would become the oldest known library in human history. Housed in the palace ...

Part of the newly discovered relief in the ancient city of Nineveh. Aaron Schmitt Located near the modern city of Mosul, Nineveh was one of the most-important cities of North Mesopotamia, having ...

King Ashurbanipal was known for his “religious zeal,” patronage of the arts and creation of “the first systematically organized library in Mesopotamia and the ancient Middle East,” among ...

Archaeologists excavating the ruins of an ancient Assyrian king’s throne room in Iraq found a massive 26,000-pound carving, a university said. Photo from Schmitt via Heidelberg University ...

The ancient city of Nineveh, located near the modern Iraqi city of Mosul, is considered to be one of the most important cities of North Mesopotamia and, under King Sennacherib, became the capital ...

Perhaps the most famous literary work to survive from ancient Mesopotamia is the Epic of Gilgamesh, a story that survives today because of the copies discovered in Ashurbanipal's library. Other ...

The Library of Ancient Wisdom: Mesopotamia and the Making of History by Selena Wisnom, Allen Lane £30/University of Chicago Press $30, 448 pages ...

How a self-taught British genius rediscovered the Mesopotamian saga of Gilgamesh after 2,500 years ...

Before the Library of Alexandria there was the Library of Ashurbanipal – an Assyrian king who collected the knowledge of ancient Mesopotamia under one roof. This incredible library was forgotten for ...