The Assyrian business community also had the first businesswomen and female investors. Generous tax breaks were given to ...

SCRIBE STATUE. FOUND: Lagash, Iraq. CULTURE: Sumerian. DATE: ca. 2400 B.C. LANGUAGE: Sumerian. In early 2016, hundreds of media outlets around the world reported that a set of recently deciphered ...

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 ...

According to National Geographic, the map depicts distances between gates in the wall surrounding the Mesopotamian city of Nippur, but for decades experts questioned its accuracy. The locations of ...

So we decided to bring the concept into the 21st century: an e-mail time capsule. We built a tool for our website that ...

The “Aloha Alphabet,” initiated by the state Department of Education’s West Hawaii Complex Area, features ABC posters, ...

Imagine a world without written records — no books, no laws, no way to document discoveries or communicate ideas across ...

Excavations at the ancient Anatolian city of Kanesh in Turkey have revealed a district where merchants from the distant Mesopotamian city of Assur in Iraq lived and worked. Some 23,000 cuneiform ...

Vivimos una época de superlativos en la industria tecnológica, con ganancias, cotizaciones bursátiles y precios de transacción históricos. Suficiente para poner muy nerviosos a algunos. By Cade Metz ...

A group of excavators recently uncovered the first-ever Assyrian inscription found in Jerusalem — shedding light on ancient power struggles described in the Bible. The inscription, which was carved on ...