A collection of artefacts collected 2,500 years ago in modern-day Iraq reveal the forgotten world of Mesopotamia, home to ...

Professor Kulakoglu explains that many of the words, although Assyrian in origin -- a Semitic language considered an ancestor ...

Some recipes recorded 4,000 years ago by humans appear to have similarities to a modern cuisine, and a few ingredients have ...

Baghdad (iraqiNews.com) – Originating in Bashiqa, a special “Mesopotamia Heritage truck” has been traveling around Nineveh Governorate for the past year, delivering essential historical ...

Participants gained hands-on experience in mosaic art, glass etching, sculpture, painting, and engraving ancient Cuneiform script. They also drew famous Mesopotamian landmarks including the ...

But when Islam spread to Persia, from 700 AD to 900 AD, there was a ‘century of silence’ when old Persian culture was ruthlessly transformed to accommodate Islam. Later on, Persia reemerged as a ...

The book is Hammer’s account of the deciphering of cuneiform, the oldest known writing system. Cuneiform was invented in around 3400 BC in Mesopotamia. It was used for… ...

The language underwent many variations – Old Egyptian, Middle Egyptian ... Sumerian is among the earliest languages for which written evidence exists, with its cuneiform script becoming known to be ...

Writing and trade have an inseparable history. Some of the oldest surviving examples of written language are stocktakes and ledgers recorded in the ancient Mesopotamian cuneiform script. Since copper ...

Around 540 BC, the cities of Ionia (Aegean coast of Asia Minor) had been conquered by Persia and thereafter were ruled by native tyrants nominated by the Persian satrap in Sardis ... The Acropolis was ...

In time, Assyria’s fearful reign receded into myth, and its arrow-like script—known as cuneiform, after the Latin for “wedge”—fell out of use. How three Victorians brought Assyria’s ...