Found amidst the ruins of a Neo-Assyrian palace in modern-day Iraq, this unassuming artifact has unveiled extraordinary ...

To facilitate administrative tasks of the Assyrian Empire Aramaic was made the second official language in 752 B.C. The Empire chancelleries adopted a simple standard form of the Aramaic for ...

Later scribes would chisel cuneiform into a variety of ... a Semitic language that was the lingua franca of the Assyrian and Babylonian Empires. CLAY TABLET. FOUND: Babylon, Iraq.

A multidisciplinary team of researchers studied a large body of texts to find out how people in the ancient Mesopotamian ...

Scholars have finally deciphered 4,000-year-old cuneiform tablets found more than 100 years ago in what is now Iraq. The tablets describe how some lunar eclipses are omens of death, destruction ...

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 ...

The content of this cuneiform document has not been conclusively determined! It seems to be a contract that presumably relates to the royal house1, since the seal of the Assyrian king Eriba-Adad I was ...

This is a Sumerian cuneiform clay tablet from the Ur III period, c.2100 B.C. This was the heyday of the Sumerian civilisation which occupied much of modern day Iraq. Sumerian was a non-Semitic ...

It's called 'cuneiform,' which means wedge-shaped. This tablet is a record of the daily beer rations for workers. Beer here is represented by an upright jar with a pointed base. The symbol for ...

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