Scientists have proposed a way to use 4,000-year-old cuneiform tablets as a map to the world's ancient lost cities.. More than 20,000 Assyrian clay tablets from the Bronze Age have been recovered ...

The Penn Museum's latest exhibit, Preserving Assyria explores the preservation of cultural heritage in post-conflict Iraq and showcases the rise of the New Assyrian Empire.

Assyria began as a dependency of Babylonia, but it became an independent state in the 14th century B.C.E., some 3,000 years ago, and grew into a major regional power in the historic Middle East.