The first major error is in the supposed "meteor impact," the crux of this theory. Unfortunately for proponents of the Köfels ...

This librarian wanted to know much more about the organisation of knowledge in Ashurbanipal's library, as there is a fair ...

Cuneiform tablets from ancient Babylon cover a range of topics, from exorcising ghosts to uncovering the location of Noah’s ...

“There were 117 Assyrian kings. When these kings died ... The archaeologists recovered thousands of cylinder seals and baked clay tablets, some carved with cuneiform inscriptions written ...

Unbaked clay tablets could crumble ... But museum trustees felt that they had more than enough Assyrian and Babylonian artifacts and wanted Smith at work on the premises. He had no way to support ...

Clay tablets unearthed at the site of Kanesh in Anatolia describe in detail an Assyrian merchants' colony there, the headquarters of an extensive commercial system, that linked two ancient cultures ...

Archaeologists who are excavating the ancient city of Nineveh in Iraq have discovered a rare stone carving depicting the last ...

Wisnom’s book recounts the labours of the excavators who uncovered more than 30,000 clay tablets and fragments in the mound ...

This photo taken on May 12, 2025 shows Assyrian reliefs in the Khinis Valley, northern Iraq. (Xinhua/Duan Minfu) This photo taken on May 12, 2025 shows an Assyrian relief in the Khinis Valley ...

An ancient clay tablet found in central Turkey suggests that a little known rival ethnic group was closely involved in the establishment of the Hittite Empire more than 3,000 years ago ...

It took seven years of hard work for Kareem Amin, co-founder and CEO of sales automation startup Clay, to see the company’s product finally take off in 2022. Since then, the startup has ...