In a recent article, a computer engineer presents the unconventional argument that the true location of the biblical Garden ...

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Using tree-ring data from ancient oaks, the team reconstructed rainfall levels in southern Britain during the years preceding ...

Rawlinson thought he had discovered cuneiform’s corresponding key in the propagandistic Achaemenid rock carvings at Behistun, which were rendered in Old Persian, Elamite and—crucially—Akkadian, the ...

They fought the Egyptians, sacked Babylon, and built elaborate cities. Then the Hittites vanished. Today, new discoveries are ...

A clay tablet, almost 4,000 years old, reveals how a Mesopotamian man named Nanni took matters into his own hands when he found himself unsatisfied with a purchase. Nanni had bought copper from a ...

Nestled in the mountains of Duhok province’s Shekhan district, Lalish Temple, the holiest site in the Yazidi faith, hosted ...

In her opinion, the Arabic language and literature are linked to the text, concepts and history of the Quran, because the ...

Almost 4,000 years ago, a Mesopotamian man named Nanni was so disappointed with the copper he bought from a trader named Ea-nāṣir, that he decided to write a formal complaint. Today, this Bronze Age ...

Smith would go on to become the world's leading expert in the ancient Akkadian language and its fiendishly difficult script, write the first true history of Mesopotamia's long-lost Assyrian Empire ...

For the Babylonians and Assyrians left a huge corpus of literature. Written in two languages, Sumerian and Akkadian, this literature has been in the process of reconstruction by a small band of ...

YHVH is an unique, disembodied, undying, always creative personality, who cares about the whole created world. We even use a pronoun of gender, although God includes both genders, because we do not ...