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 ...

A team of archaeologists in Iraq, led by Sebastian Rey, the British Museum’s curator of ancient Mesopotamia, has uncovered compelling evidence of the empire’s formidable bureaucracy.

From the archaeological discoveries of Ur to Mount Ebal, Christians need to be more careful evaluating the facts. The best-selling fiction writer of all time was on her second solo trip in the ...

In southern Iraq, archaeologists have excavated a remarkable collection of carved clay tablets—ancient records of Akkadia, the world’s oldest empire. Marked with the administrative details of ...

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. Their rivalry became a race to achieve what ...

The oldest written recipe discovered in Egypt is dated from approximately the year 300 AD. A recipe for red lentils, it was written on papyrus in the Greek language. The Egyptian Ministry of Tourism ...

A sprawling, hidden network of ancient irrigation canals has been uncovered near the ancient city of Eridu in southern Mesopotamia. Under the leadership of geoarchaeologist Jaafar Jotheri ...

Researchers have identified an extensive Mesopotamian canal network that supplied ancient farms in the Eridu region with water from the Euphrates river before the first millennium B.C.

The Lua language server provides various language features for Lua to make development easier and faster. With nearly a million installs in Visual Studio Code, it is the most popular extension for Lua ...

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