Mesopotamian warfare was waged between rival city-states such as Ur, Lagash and Umma during earlier periods, and later ...

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

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 ...

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.

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 ...

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) ...

Assyrian swimmers: 2,900-year-old ... A cuneiform inscription running across the top of the panel traces the king's lineage and describes his key accomplishments.

The next-earliest description of a candidate aurora is found on Assyrian cuneiform tablets dated between 679-655 BCE, three centuries later. As we've reported previously, ...