Almost 4,000 years ago, a Mesopotamian man named Nanni was so disappointed with the copper he bought from a trader named ...

The King Salman Global Academy for Arabic Language (KSGAAL) and Indiana University have launched a specialized academic ...

The translation of ancient Assyrian writing into modern languages was a challenge that had long vexed historians. Three ...

Joshua Hammer’s book about cuneiform, a writing system that defined the pre-Hellenic world as much as its monuments did, is a ...

They date back to the Akkad period (2300BC-2150BC), which, Rey tells The Art Newspaper, was “an extremely important period in Mesopotamian history—featuring charismatic kings such as Naram-Sin ...

Today we would call him an Assyriologist, an expert in the language and history of the ancient Mesopotamian cultures that wrote Sumerian and Akkadian in cuneiform. Mallowan distinguished himself ...

Marked with the administrative details of government, the tablets have illuminated the complicated bureaucracy of an ancient Mesopotamian civilization. The tablets were discovered in the Sumerian ...

Their rivalry became a race to achieve what had seemed an impossible feat: the decipherment of the Akkadian language and the ancient Sumerian texts inscribed on clay tablets from the Assyrian and ...