On the inevitability of cultural exchange between empires, Durant (1935: 264) writes: Through Assyria's conquest of Babylon, her appropriation of the ancient city's culture, and her dissemination of ...
Artefacts from a Mesopotamian archaeological site suggest that people in the region founded and later rejected an early form ...
The Mercator Projection, Ptolemy’s ‘Geographia’, the Fra Mauro Map, and even Google Maps have all shaped how we experience ...
Although archeologists have yet to precisely date the tablet, related items including pottery shards and a stone mortar also ...
A multidisciplinary team of researchers studied a large body of texts to find out how people in the ancient Mesopotamian region (within modern day Iraq) experienced emotions in their bodies thousands ...
Ancient Mesopotamian bowls found in northern Iraq offer new insights into the collapse of one of the world’s first ...
Researchers have been carefully excavating the artifacts and decorative reliefs found at the 2,100-year-old site in the ...
Researchers Decipher Writings on 4000-Year-Old Babylonian Cuneiform Tablets, Say The Messages Predicted 'Danger' Researchers have deciphered the inscription on a set of four clay tablets they ...
A 4,000-year-old cuneiform tablet from ancient Sumer reveals a student's math error on a triangle's area, marking a ...
New scientific methods have allowed archaeologists to learn more about how the enigmatic Nebra Sky Disc was manufactured in ...
It’s pretty clear from Josephus and from the archaeology' that gladiators fought in Caesarea, says NYU professor; Israeli ...
But many have occupied themselves with questions about the role of Jews in ancient Rome’s famous bloodsport ... has argued ...