In his new book, Eckart Frahm describes the rise of Assyria from a peaceful city-state to a combative imperial power.

From inscriptions on palace walls and incisions in cuneiform tablets, he was styled “Great King, the Mighty King, King of Assyria, King of Sumer and Akkad, the King of the World.” Those titles ...

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

Cuneiform tablets that they sent home show that they kept up long-distance marriages with Assyrian women who maintained households in Assur.

The team also found well-preserved clay tablets, also featuring cuneiform inscriptions, that shed light on the economic activities of the temple, such as silver loans and lists of assets.

The present work is a series of 107 plates containing the text of 660 cuneiform medical tablets for the most part previously unpublished.

The team also found well-preserved clay tablets, also featuring cuneiform inscriptions, that shed light on the economic activities of the temple, such as silver loans and lists of assets.

Cuneiform tablets from ancient Assyria dating to 679 B.C. contain the earliest written record of an aurora.

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

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 ...