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Scholars have found a 3,000-year-old Babylonian hymn praising the city, its citizens, and deity Marduk, with the help of A.I.
Sophie Cunningham, the Indiana Fever guard, has been trending on social media for a couple of weeks now. It started last ...
A carved panel found at Nimrud depicts Assyrian soldiers swimming across a river and using inflatable goat skins as floaties.
A newly spotlighted artifact from ancient Mesopotamia is offering a rare window into how one of the world’s earliest ...
A recent study published in the Journal of Archaeological Science has revealed the materials and techniques used in the production of writing tablets from the Neo-Assyrian Empire, found in the ruins ...
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 ...
Credit: Penn Museum Researchers also discovered clay tablets in excellent condition, inscribed in cuneiform in the Assyrian language (a dialect of Akkadian), revealing details about the temple’s ...
Archaeologists have unlocked a portal to the past through an object that might seem mundane at first glance: a sun-dried ...
Ancient Tablets Foretold Doom Awaiting Babylonian Kings A new translation of cuneiform relics from the second millennium B.C. highlights the warnings that astrologers saw in eclipses.
To read about 4,000-year-old cuneiform tablets excavated at the Anatolian city of Kanesh, go to " Assyrian Women of Letters." ...