Four LMU researchers have each been awarded a Consolidator Grant. Their projects deal with the statistics of social inequality, the cuneiform culture of Mesopotamia, the detailed investigation of ...
San Casciano dei Bagni in Tuscany has revealed extraordinary archaeological finds, including bronze statues, coins, and ...
Cylinder seals from Ur, c. 2450 BC, Penn Museum, Philadelphia, USA In the first article of this series, I provided a brief historical overview of the Neo-Assyrian, Urartian, and Achaemenid empires, ...
Anaximander's Map is considered by some to be the first-ever world map, and alleged versions of it have been shared across ...
Learn why the achievements of Egypt, Babylon and Greece, though child’s play today, still stand as remarkable feats of ...
For thousands of years before Prophet Abraham, Allah sent tens of thousands of prophets to all the bands, tribes, nations and empires on the earth, and not one of God’s Prophets was able to establish ...
As its name indicates, the Spanish Cape of Finisterre (finis terrae) was considered in Antiquity as the westernmost limit of ...
Researchers Decipher Writings on 4000-Year-Old Babylonian Cuneiform Tablets, Say The Messages Predicted 'Danger' Researchers ...
Newly analyzed 5,000-year-old clay bowls unearthed in Iraq may be evidence of early government-like rule, a new study finds.
The Iraqi Christians speak a modern version of Aramaic. They are the descendants of the Assyrian civilisation that covered ...
Israelis are living life without a security blanket. It is frightening. But like Jacob, they still dream of something better.
In Edessa, also known as Antioch, an ancient city of Mesopotamia located in present-day Şanlıurfa, Turkey, lies the Kizilkoyun necropolis. Recent archaeological excavations there have unearthed ...