Around 700 BC, the Neo-Assyrian emperor Sargon II began building a new capital city, named after himself, in the desert of ...
Art is a space where conversations collide in Maryam Yousif’s whimsical, cheeky and thoughtful three-dimensional ...
A ncient humans came together 35,000 years ago in the deepest, darkest part of a cave in what is now western Galilee, Israel, ...
The tablet could predate the earliest known evidence of writing in the Caucasus region by over a thousand years, hinting at a ...
Natufian spindle whorls from 12,000 years ago represent the earliest fast-spinning technology in the Levant, shedding light ...
Anaximander's Map is considered by some to be the first-ever world map, and alleged versions of it have been shared across ...
Researchers from University of Glasgow have found origins of early governing institutions in Mesopotamia, which were based on ...
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, ...
Among these digitized artifacts of the Oxford University museum is a fascinating piece that has intrigued scholars and ...