Could the superb Mask of Warka hold the secrets of history's earliest anatomically correct face? Discover art, devotion, and the ancient past in an exquisitely carved face.
A bathtub in Emory University’s museum is splashed with symbols of the sea: a giant fish, wavy water lines. Someone in the ancient Mediterranean world may have used it as a coffin, believing it would ferry their soul to the afterlife, as a label told museum visitors.
The temples of the Sumerian god Enki and goddess Ninhursag at Eridu and Ubaid attest to an era when civilization emerged on the alluvial plains of Iraq.
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It will be 2026 before Mosul's Cultural Museum reopens. Lena Bopp found out how restorers are going about repairing the damage inflicted by Islamic State