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

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

"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 ...

In 1911, the explorer Gertrude Bell visited the German excavations at Ashur, the founding capital of the Assyrian empire. Emerging from communities on the banks of the Tigris, in present-day Iraq ...

His suggestion later, triggered him to start writing a comic about Assyrian ... he says the word Ashiratteh (tribes) comes from the ancient Assyrian word (ASARATTO) which means special forces ...

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 ...

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 ...

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