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The Rise of the Persian Empire: Professor Matt Waters on Ancient Empires and Cyrus the Great

Tides of History

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The Importance of Mesopotamia in the History of the Field

There are less opportunities for colonial archaeologists to go and check things out. As Iraq is opened up again, especially in the south, some cities like Lagash work,. They're resuming excavations there because there's still more to be found. So it's not a coincidence, say that some of these cities for which we have long archaeological records aren't done.

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