Professor Kulakoglu explains that many of the words, although Assyrian in origin -- a Semitic language considered an ancestor ...

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 ...

Greek sources portrayed the Achaemenid kings, as indulgent and ruthless—all but Cyrus II. Why was this enemy ruler the only exception?

and perhaps it was because of his training as an engraver that he had such a knack for assembling coherent passages of cuneiform out of the drawers and drawers of old rubble. In fact, Smith had ...

But now the remnants of that millenniums-old history are in danger of being ... tribes who called themselves the Luwians, according to cuneiform tablets found in the archives of the 14th-century ...

The language underwent many variations – Old Egyptian, Middle Egyptian ... Sumerian is among the earliest languages for which written evidence exists, with its cuneiform script becoming known to be ...

Tyre came under Persian rule in 572 BC and was later conquered by Alexander ... and also very adaptable to other languages, quite unlike cuneiform or hieroglyphics. Canaanite and Aramaic inscriptions ...

The agents took the man into custody and identified him as an 18-year-old Iranian national who was living in Canada legally. U.S. Border Patrol said that he was processed for expedited removal and ...

Agents found the man, who was identified as an 18-year-old Iranian citizen who legally resided in Canada but had illegally entered the United States. “Incidents like this underscore the vital ...