The Akkadian Empire is thought to be the oldest empire in recorded history, but there is still much we do not know about its people or the figures who established it. Image credit: Eric de ...

Nature - Archaeologists draw comparisons between the fall of the Akkadian empire more than 4,000 years ago and the crises in contemporary Syria. Skip to main content Thank you for visiting nature.com.

The stalagmites have the additional advantage that they can be dated very precisely using uranium-thorium chronology. Combining these methods, our new study provides a detailed history of ...

The Akkadian Empire ruled over the Middle East for two centuries, when it suddenly collapsed 4.400 years ago. Chemical traces in fossils suggest that shifting climate contributed to the empire's ...

The Akkadian Empire, which ruled what is now Iraq and Syria from the 24th to the 22nd Century B.C., was likely unable to overcome the devastating aftereffects of the dust storms, including an ...

Evidence of the Akkadian Empire’s administration. Girsu held religious importance in Sumerian times as a sanctuary for the god Ningirsu. Around 2300 BC, ...

History's first recorded empire was the Akkadians, established by a man called Sargon in around the 24th century BCE. The Semitic Akkadian peoples would establish the modus operandi for the way ...

The remains of an ancient city has been discovered in northern Iraq. The settlement, near the town of Dohuk, is believed to have served as an outpost for the Akkadian Empire, having been founded ...

It took several more centuries for the Aramaic language to fully conquer Assyria and Babylonia, according to historian H. W. F. Saggs, but come 100 A.D., Akkadian had completely disappeared from use.

Our Fragile Moment Michael Mann PublicAffairs, $30. Over four millennia ago, in the final days of the Akkadian Empire in Mesopotamia, a drought swept over the region, afflicting lands as far away ...