A 2,648-year-old "clay tablet" with only women's names written on it in the ruins of an Assyrian-era palace at the Ickale Museum Complex in Sur district of Diyarbakir, Türkiye, August 6, 2024. ( IHA ...

The first diagnosis to handle infertility was made 4,000 years ago as depicted on an ancient Assyrian clay tablet that was discovered by Turkish researchers in central Kayseri province. The research ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — A 3,500-year-old clay tablet discovered in the ruins of the library of an ancient Mesopotamian king, then looted from an Iraqi museum 30 years ago, is finally headed back to Iraq.

It was looted from an Iraqi museum 30 years ago, Now, a 3,500-year-old clay tablet discovered in the ruins of the library of an ancient Middle Eastern king is finally headed back to Iraq ...

A cuneiform clay tablet that has puzzled scholars for over 150 years has been translated for the first time. ... and was made by an Assyrian scribe around 700 BC.

The words in the "lost" language were written in cuneiform script on a clay tablet found at Boğazköy-Hattuşa. They seem to be from a foreign religious ritual written down by Hittite scribes.

On June 15, 763 BCE, a near-total solar eclipse occurred over northern Assyria and was recorded by observers in Nineveh, the capital city.This event is preserved in the Eponym Canon, a list of ...

In 1872, in a quiet second-floor room at the British Museum, George Smith, a museum employee, was studying a grime-encrusted clay tablet when he came across words that would change his life.