The episode shows us that even though the Assyrian kings were very powerful, they couldn’t fully be in charge of everything. We also know a lot about how husbands and wives interacted, sometimes ...

Michel has collected translations of more than 300 nineteenth-century B.C. cuneiform tablets by or to women in Women of Assur and Kanesh: Texts from the Archives of Assyrian Merchants.

An Assyrian gypsum cuneiform dedicatory panel, reign of Tukulti-Ninurta I, circa 1243-1207 BC. Of rectangular form, finely engraved on both sides, with 280 lines of text divided into eight columns ...

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 ...

Assyrian cuneiform tablets contain the earliest known reference to auroras. (Image credit: Y. Mitsuma's tracings of photographs by H. Hayakawa, taken courtesy of the Trustees of the British Museum) ...

Recently, Jonathan Taylor, a curator for the cuneiform collections and Mesopotamia at the British Museum, remarks in a blog post on the library that the collection is a rare look into Assyrian ...

Huge Solar Storms 2,700 Years Ago Documented in Ancient Assyrian Cuneiform Tablets. Published Oct 17, 2019 at 8:27 AM EDT Updated Oct 22, 2019 at 6:11 AM EDT. By .

A carved panel found at Nimrud depicts Assyrian soldiers swimming across a river and using inflatable goat skins as floaties.

There are literally tens and tens of thousands of Assyrian cuneiform texts, from royal inscriptions in which kings describe their military activities or building projects, to letters to royalty by ...

Ancient Assyrian stone tablets represent the oldest known reports of auroras, dating to more than 2,500 years ago. The descriptions, written in cuneiform, were found on three stone tablets, dating ...