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

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

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 ...

A new book, The Library of Ancient Wisdom by Selena Wisnom at the University of Leicester, UK, pieces together a vivid portrait of Mesopotamian life from the shattered remnants of the 30,000 or so ...

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 ...

Archaeologists have unearthed “administrative tablets,” which provide the oldest tangible proof of the world’s first empire, the Akkadia. The findings reveal the surprising existence of a ...

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 ...

She consults for and co-develops the Mooveez language-learning app. Šárka Šimáčková has received external funding from the Czech Science Foundation. Václav Jonáš Podlipský has received ...

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June Yako is the President of Assyrian Aid Society Australia. She talks to SBS about the first Mesopotamia Night and the overwhelming reception by the audience as this is the first Mesopotamia ...