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

A new study has revealed how Neo-Assyrian writing boards were made, offering the earliest known example of cuneiform writing on wax. These ancient boards, uncovered in the ruins of Nimrud in ...

A recent study published in the Journal of Archaeological Science has revealed the materials and techniques used in the ...

The translation of ancient Assyrian writing into modern languages was a challenge that had long vexed historians. Three ...

A grisly Bible story about an ancestor of Jesus may be true, jaw-dropping new evidence from a site dubbed 'Armageddon' ...

Excavations at Boncuklu Tarla, a Neolitihic site contemporary with Göbeklitepe, are revealing early evidence of human ...

Her new book Between Two Rivers: Ancient Mesopotamia and the Birth of History takes readers on a journey in time through what has been able to be read from bricks and tablets found at the site ...

Independent news and stories connecting you to life in Australia and Assyrian-speaking Australians. Hear from people who have built successful lives in this new country. Get the latest with our ...

When a vast library of texts amassed by Mesopotamian King Ashurbanipal was burned to the ground about 2700 years ago, the ...