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 ...

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

MR. KING'S modest little volume on the Assyrian language will, we believe, be welcomed by many who are not Assyriologists, because it contains a brief but lucid exposition of the principles upon ...

After cuneiform was replaced by alphabetic writing sometime after the first century A.D., the hundreds of thousands of clay tablets and other inscribed objects went unread for nearly 2,000 years.

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) ...

Archaeologists excavating a Bronze Age Assyrian city in Iraqi Kurdistan have unearthed a cache of almost 100 cuneiform tablets. Led by the University of Tübingen’s Peter Pfälzner, the team ...

This 2,900-year-old brick, fashioned from mud and baked in the sun, bears the cuneiform inscription of its ownership by Neo-Assyrian king Ashurnasirpal II.

IN a handy little volume, to which we have much pleasure in directing the attention of our readers, Mr. L. W. King, oi the British Museum, has published the cuneiform text and a translation of a ...