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 ...

Archaeologists have unlocked a portal to the past through an object that might seem mundane at first glance: a sun-dried ...

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) ...

Scholars have found a 3,000-year-old Babylonian hymn praising the city, its citizens, and deity Marduk, with the help of A.I.

The authors describe three Assyrian and Babylonian cuneiform tablets. These tablets date from 680 to 655 BCE and describe red clouds or a red glow in the night sky.

New territory could be governed directly or by subordinated local princes. The Empire's long succession of military victories was recorded--in cuneiform writing--on stone tablets and monuments which ...

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 ...

Cuneiform Tablet Shows Demon That Assyrians Believed Caused Epilepsy . CLOSE. ... Ancient Assyria, one of the world’s first empires, blamed the condition on the work of a demon.

Cuneiform, referring to 'wedge-shaped' inscriptions on clay tablets, is one of the oldest-known systems of writing. The Assyrian Empire dates back to the 25th century B.C., ...

The dais uncovered by Penn Museum and Iraqi archaeologists at Nimrud, Iraq. (Penn Museum) At the ancient Assyrian city of Nimrud in northern Iraq, a temple razed by fire around 612 BCE, has remarkably ...

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 ...