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Ancient tablet reveals the secrets of a 3,000 year-old biblical view of life
By combining ancient inscriptions with biological evidence, researchers reconstructed a snapshot of daily life in the Neo-Assyrian Empire. This intersection of history and science offers a richer ...
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The Rassam Cylinder, a 10-sided prism from the 7th century BC with an inscription describing the reign of Ashurbanipal
The Rassam Cylinder is an ancient clay cylinder containing cuneiform inscriptions that describe the reign and military ...
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Iraqi archaeologists piece together ancient treasures ravaged by IS
Once the crown jewel of the ancient Assyrian empire, the archaeological site was ravaged by Islamic State (IS) fighters after they seized large areas of Iraq and neighbouring Syria in 2014.
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Fire ravaged wealthy temple 2,600 years ago. But these ‘remarkable’ finds survived
A joint team of American and Iraqi archaeologists returned to the ruins of Nimrud, the once-thriving capital city of the ancient Assyrian Empire, for a third year of excavations, the Penn Museum ...