The Lagash Lounge must have held a heck of a party the night it closed down. Perhaps this last supposition is debatable. Two things, though, are not. First, ...

Archeologists unearthed a 5,000-year-old “tavern” in one of southwest Asia’s earliest cities. A team of researchers studying the archeological site of Lagash in southern Iraq uncovered the ...

Archaeologists excavating Lagash uncovered ruins of an ancient public eating space complete with fridge, oven, food and drink, photos show. 4,700-year-old ‘tavern’, still fully stocked, found ...

Archaeologists excavated a site in Iraq dating to around 2700 B.C. in the ancient Sumerian city-state of Lagash that might contain the oldest-known tavern.

Lagash, which formed the core of one of the world’s earliest states, was founded between about 4,900 and 4,600 years ago. Residents abandoned the site, now known as Tell al-Hiba, ...

"Lagash was one of the important cities of southern Iraq," Iraqi archaeologist Baker Azab Wali told AFP, after working with the U.S.-Italian team on the site.

Lagash Archaeology Project CNN — Eating out seems to have been as popular 5,000 years ago as it is today, with archaeologists in Iraq uncovering an ancient tavern dating back to 2,700 BCE.

The fight between Umma and Lagash is one of the oldest known wars in human history and led to what may be the world’s first peace treaty and one of the oldest legal documents, the Treaty of ...

Researchers discovered an ancient tavern at Lagash in southern Iraq. Lagash Archaeological Project Archaeologists have unearthed the remains of an ancient tavern that’s nearly 5,000 years old in ...

While the Lagash tavern is unlikely to have been unique for its time, the installation is the first discovered from this period in the region. If you're curious about Bronze Age brewing, check out ...