Ancient cuneiform tablets at Denmark's National Museum may prove that Sumerian hero Gilgamesh was a real historical ruler.
New research on the Shamash Gate in ancient Nineveh uncovers ISIS tunnel damage and rare evidence from the Assyrian capital.
The specific tablet that has caused such excitement is a school text listing kings who ruled at the end of the third millennium BC. Other known copies of this same royal list also include Gilgamesh, ...
Decoded cuneiform tablets reveal early societies’ magic, politics, and bureaucracy, including rare rituals, king lists, and ...
The 4,000-year-old Linear Elamite script from what is now Iran has long eluded archaeologists hoping to unlock the secrets of ...
Christine Xuan Müller Stabsstelle Kommunikation und Marketing Freie Universität Berlin. Researchers from Berlin and Jerusal ...
A new book explores ancient letters about kings, pleas for help from a bereft mother, classroom exercises and ancient doodles ...
Jamie Ding, a self-described “faceless bureaucrat” from New Jersey, became a TV sensation during his 31-game winning streak.
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The lost city of Mari, how 25,000 cuneiform tablets revealed a forgotten Bronze Age world on the Euphrates
Buried beneath the sands of the Syrian-Iraqi borderlands, the ancient city of Mari lay silent for millennia until a vast archive of cuneiform tablets brought its vanished world back to life. From ...
A new exhibition at the National Museum in Damascus traces the evolution of writing in Syria, from prehistoric symbols carved ...
They partied like it was 1989 … BC. People were enjoying libations with coworkers long before the modern-day office soiree.
First-year students create interactive 3D and 2D replicas of historical objects to be presented during Imagine RIT.
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