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, ...
During these centuries, a common, unspoken language of symbols often reflected the region's shifting geopolitics, allegiances ...
Artefacts from a Mesopotamian archaeological site suggest that people in the region founded and later rejected an early form ...
Although archeologists have yet to precisely date the tablet, related items including pottery shards and a stone mortar also ...
San Casciano dei Bagni in Tuscany has revealed extraordinary archaeological finds, including bronze statues, coins, and ...
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 ...