The ancients Assyriansmore than two millennia ago, associated different emotions with similar body parts than we do today, ...

Ancient Mesopotamia felt love in their livers and anger in their feet, revealed a recent analysis of one million words of the ...

Researchers have analysed Mesopotamian texts to see how they described emotions inhabiting different parts of the body. The study, published in iScience, draws on Neo-Assyrian cuneiform texts dating ...

From feeling heavy-hearted to having butterflies in your stomach, it seems inherent to the human condition that we feel ...

Johns Hopkins Assyriologist Jacob Lauinger has the rare privilege of translating a once-in-a-lifetime archaeological find: a small, 3,500-year-old cuneiform tablet unearthed in February 2023 after a ...

Researchers analyzing 1 million Akkadian words from ancient Mesopotamian texts revealed unique insights into how emotions ...

A multidisciplinary team of researchers studied a large body of texts to find out how people in the ancient Mesopotamian region (within modern day Iraq) experienced emotions in their bodies thousands ...

During these centuries, a common, unspoken language of symbols often reflected the region's shifting geopolitics, allegiances ...

Department of Archaeology and History of Art, Koç Üniversitesi, İstanbul, Türkiye Cuneiform tablets indicate the importance of textile manufacturing in the Bronze Age Old Assyrian Colony Period and ...