"The close relationship between ancient sealing and the invention of writing in southwest Asia ... of people weaving on a cylinder seal from the Mesopotamian city of Susa bear a similar form ...

When a vast library of texts amassed by Mesopotamian King Ashurbanipal was burned to the ground about 2700 years ago, the ...

An Honorary Fellow at Oxford University's Wolfson College, Moudhy has spent much of her career translating the stories of the ...

One writing in Akkadian on a cuneiform tablet ... It should be noted that while the ancient Assyrian words universaly ended in "U" the contemporary Eastern Assyrian words in their basic form end in "A ...

the study of ancient Assyria. The enigmatic writing was a kind of cuneiform, from “cuneus,” Latin for “wedge,” a reference to the shapes of characters made by craftsmen who split the ...

The careful documentation of hundreds of thousands of inscriptions helped scholars to unravel the mysteries of cuneiform—the world’s oldest writing system. First developed in Sumer, an ancient ...

Ancient Mesopotamian maths was based on 60, which is why we have 60 seconds in a minute and 60 minutes in an hour This tablet is amazing. For me it’s a first sign of writing but it also tells ...

He told SBS Assyrian the damage inflicted on these ancient cultural sites by ISIS was vast. A stone tablet with cuneiform writing wreaked by the ISIS group at the ancient site of Nimrud ...