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 ...

Experts have begun the restoration of the largest inscription of King Darius the Great at Persepolis after years of erosion ...

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 ...

Terms of Service and Privacy Policy. A roughly 4,800-year-old royal Mesopotamian cemetery in eastern Turkey appears to complicate existing theories about how some ...

At Ancient Origins, we believe that one of the most important fields of knowledge we can pursue as human beings is our beginnings. And while some people may seem content with the story as it stands, ...

Emerging from communities on the banks of the Tigris, in present-day Iraq, the Assyrians had conquered Babylon and Egypt and ruled in the Mesopotamian region from around 1300-600 B.C. At the dig ...

Experts told Live Science it was probably the proto-Sinaitic script, which was invented about 4,000 years ago by Canaanite ...

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 ...

This theory was based on the idea that by the early Bronze Age, Mesopotamian societies were ruled by kings and organized into social hierarchies. But the new study complicates that idea.

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