Two small clay cylinders, pulled from the soil of central Iraq, have given Nebuchadnezzar II his first clear voice at the ...

Study of ancient cuneiform cylinders reveals how Nebuchadnezzar II restored Kish’s ziggurat and linked his rule to Babylon’s ...

The Dispilio Tablet, a wooden artifact engraved with linear symbols and dated to around 5260 BC, was discovered in a ...

From a garden at the Holy Sepulchre to new dates for the Dead Sea Scrolls, new research is offering detailed glimpses into ...

A fragment of a cuneiform seal that’s now the first direct evidence of official communication between the kingdoms of Judah and Assyria has emerged at an archaeological site in Israel. According to ...

The man in the center with the full white beard is Mr. Finkel, an expert on cuneiform writing. The British Museum has 130,000 cuneiform clay tablets waiting to be deciphered. Finkel has a clay tablet ...

Ancient written languages emerged as a revolutionary development in human history, allowing civilizations to record important ...

A Babylonian hymn lost for over a thousand years was rediscovered. Experts pieced together the hymn using an AI model to decipher hundreds of cuneiform tablets in a Baghdad library. The library’s ...

These gingerbread tablets are SUPER DELICIOUS and the perfect ancient eat for something modern. The Epic of Gilgamesh is believed to be the oldest piece of literature in the world, and tells the story ...

Manama, Apr. 24 (BNA): In a milestone achievement, that underscores Bahrain’s deep-rooted cultural legacy, the Bahrain Authority for Culture and Antiquities (BACA) has announced the inscription of the ...

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