Page 8 - Uruk News Today

In Iraq’s ancient Babylon, climate change has led to salty groundwater that is corroding some of humanity’s oldest monuments. Archeologists are using low-salt mudbricks made by a local artisan to preserve sites once considered one of the world’s wonders.

For almost 10,000 years, a mine in Afghanistan has produced lapis lazuli, a stone prized for its use as an ornament, sculpting material, and pigment.

We journey to an ancient civilisation, responsible for many of the world's 'firsts'

At the temple of Ninmakh, the Sumerian mother goddess, Iraqi archaeologists are using 7,000-year-old techniques to protect the monument, and the rest of the ancient city of...

At the temple of Ninmakh, the Sumerian mother goddess, Iraqi archaeologists are using 7,000-year-old techniques to protect the monument, and the rest of the ancient city of Babylon, from salt seeping ...

There was a widespread, and deeply ingrained, belief in the ancient world that a race of giants once walked the Earth and

4,000 years ago, the world’s first author composed verses that helped forge the Akkadian Empire

Episode 6 saw Adar offer new facts about himself and Sauron, in what Morfydd Clark told Newsweek was "the merging of the canon characters with the new."

Babylon, the ancient Mesopotamian civilization, existed from roughly 2000 B.C. to 540 B.C.

The world's oldest civilization is believed to come from human enlightenment like Sumer, Babylon, to Uruk are still hazy little is known.