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

Oxford historian, Dr Moudhy Al Rashid, on her book Between Two Rivers: Ancient Mesopotamia and the Birth of History ...

The famous Parisian museum announced the Mona Lisa is moving into her own gallery. The change will actually help visitors ...

They authored massive archives of cuneiform tablets containing numerous ... Stone reliefs at the open-air sanctuary of Yazilikaya, near Hattusa, show a king (at right) and a Hittite god.

Hundreds of administrative tablets dating back over 4,000 years have been discovered by archaeologists. The state archives of the ancient Sumerian site of Girsu, now Tello in the south of Iraq ...

The show's protagonist ... Curator Irving Finkel says that the cuneiform writing on the tablet tells of the ancient Babylonians' beliefs and culture. The tiny tablet has cuneiform on both sides ...

They are obsessed with bureaucracy.” Written partially in cuneiform—an ancient Middle Eastern writing system—the tablets ...

“People think that a culture dating from the third millennium b.c. must be primitive, which is emphatically not the case,” says Metropolitan curator Joan Aruz, who began planning the show five ...