The artifacts were excavated from a city dating back to the third millennium B.C.E. by researchers from Iraq and the British ...

Archaeologists from the British Museum and Iraq have uncovered over 200 4,000-year-old cuneiform tablets at Girsu, shedding ...

and an evisceration of the entire concept of empire. In advance of the book's publication on February 25 and an appearance by El Akkad at Powell's City of Books, we spoke with the author about ...