David Damrosch In November 1872, George Smith was working at the British Museum in a second-floor room overlooking ... confirmation of a vast flood in ancient Mesopotamia, complete with a Noah ...

Excavations on unpromising mounds in the Iraqi desert revealed Sumer’s earliest city. Surviving relics and a rebuilt temple ...

Emerging from communities on the banks of the Tigris, in present-day Iraq, the Assyrians had conquered Babylon and Egypt and ruled in the Mesopotamian region from around 1300-600 B.C. At the dig ...

What does it take to decipher an extinct writing system? If Joshua Hammer’s new book The Mesopotamian Riddle: An archaeologist, a soldier, a clergyman, and the race to decipher the world’s ...

As Iraq fitfully rebuilds, a groundbreaking exhibition is showcasing that nation’s rich roots in Mesopotamia, the region that gave birth to the world’s first urban civilization some 5,000 ...

Sen. Cory Booker (D-N.J.) said as he began speaking on the Senate floor Monday night that he intended to disrupt “the normal business of the United States Senate for as long as I am physically ...

Sen. Cory Booker (D-N.J.) pulled an all-nighter and has delivered a record-breaking speech on the Senate floor looking to combat the Trump administration and its policies. He broke the record for ...

U.S. Sen. Cory Booker kicked off what he promises to be a marathon speech on the Senate floor Monday night when he began criticizing President Donald Trump and Elon Musk. You can watch the ...

Sen. Cory Booker (D-New Jersey) broke a record Tuesday night for the longest U.S. Senate floor speech of the modern era, surpassing Sen. Strom Thurmond’s 1957 remarks inside the chamber that ...

Two Waltham police officers were flagged down and learned a 77-year-old resident was trapped on the third floor of the building. The fire and smoke pushed them back as they tried to get to the man ...