More than a thousand years after it was last heard, an AI translator has brought a long-lost hymn to the ancient city of ...

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

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 ...

Neo-Assyrian tablet, one of a set of sixteen writing tablets hinged together as a folding set. Credit: The Trustees of the British Museum. Shared under a CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 licence. A new study has ...

The mystery of cuneiform, the world’s oldest writing system, remained unsolved for centuries. It wasn’t until the mid-19th century, driven by groundbreaking discoveries in Mesopotamia, that a ...

Digital Clay: Cuneiform languages represent the earliest known writing systems in human history. The Sumerians used this method by making indentations in clay tablets, a practice later adopted by ...

Abstract Embodied emotions in ancient Neo-Assyrian texts revealed by bodily mapping of emotional semantics Emotions are associated with subjective emotion-specific bodily sensations. Here, we utilized ...

The finding reinforces an idea proposed in earlier research: that cuneiform script — which was developed in early Mesopotamia around 3100 B.C. and is thought to be the earliest writing system ...

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.