Researchers have finally solved how to play a 4,500-year-old Mesopotamian board game discovered years ago at Shahr-i Sokhta, ...

This is the first piece in the AGON – Ancient Games of Nations ... Sir Leonard Wooley (1880-1960) found two of these game boards in the city of Ur. There is evidence that The Royal Game of ...

A lyre in a treasure-laden royal tomb discovered in Mesopotamia is the earliest stringed instrument ever found.

Image caption, A restored Ziggurat in the ancient city of Ur. Mud-brick houses were ... In the 1920s Sir Leonard Woolley excavated at the site of Ur. He found artefacts in graves from around ...