A team of researchers from the British Museum, led by Diego Tamburini, recently examined the tablet fragments using advanced ...

Cuneiform, the oldest identified writing system, defied deciphering – until 1857. What happened then makes a terrific read, ...

A new study has revealed how Neo-Assyrian writing boards were made, offering the earliest known example of cuneiform writing on wax. These ancient boards, uncovered in the ruins of Nimrud in ...

Fragment of a Neo-Assyrian tablet preserving wax, in the British Museum. ( The Trustees of the British Museum) The writing ...

The translation of ancient Assyrian writing into modern languages was a challenge that had long vexed historians. Three ...

"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 ...

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 ...

A recent study published in the Journal of Archaeological Science has revealed the materials and techniques used in the production of writing tablets from the Neo-Assyrian Empire, found in the ruins ...