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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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Cuneiform tablets that they sent home show that they kept up long-distance marriages with Assyrian women who maintained households in Assur.
A carved panel found at Nimrud depicts Assyrian soldiers swimming across a river and using inflatable goat skins as floaties.
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.
Cuneiform tablets from ancient Assyria dating to 679 B.C. contain the earliest written record of an aurora.
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.
Archaeologists excavating an ancient Assyrian palace in Nimrud found a door sill, carved ivory and ostrich eggshells revealing royal life.
On 10th January, a team of ANEE members and students gave a cuneiform workshop in the science event Tieteiden yö (”Night of Sciences”). Even though reading, let alone writing, cuneiform is difficult, ...
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 ...