"As we celebrate this holiday and approach the elections, I see an urgent necessity to transition to a new phase of thinking ...

The artifacts were excavated from a city dating back to the third millennium B.C.E. by researchers from Iraq and the British ...

The UNESCO World Heritage Site of Boğazköy-Hattuša is located in the north of Turkey. It was once the capital of the Hittite ...

Archaeologists from the British Museum and Iraq have uncovered over 200 4,000-year-old cuneiform tablets at Girsu, shedding ...

These archives document the period between 2300 and 2150 BC, when Girsu was under the rule of the Akkadian dynasty. As per ...

The cuneiform tablets discovered there and in other Hittite sites represent one of the largest groups of texts from the ancient Near East. They include thousands of sources in Hittite, an ...

A fierce rivalry between four scholars ignited a race to crack the world’s oldest writing, unlocking the secrets of Mesopotamia after millennia of silence.

The finds, which also include dozens of clay sealings, contain details of a metric system used to measure resources, as well ...

Going big and going early leads to an uptick in public interest and in those necessary donations. Unfortunately, it also ...

Red tape may feel like a modern-day frustration, but according to archaeologists, it's been a part of governance for millennia. Evidence from ancient Mesopotamia reveals that bureaucratic systems were ...