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

Discover the Imago Mundi, the 2,600-year-old Babylonian world map from Sippar, Iraq. Learn how it blends geography, myth & ...

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

Bringing Taiwan to the World and the World to Taiwan ...

Ancient instructions for making food often didn't have weights ... archaeologists struggled to translate the cuneiform script ...

Imagine being able to travel back thousands of years, not with a time machine, but through the words our ancestors spoke. It ...

the black stone stele carved in cuneiform script with the ancient legal text known as the Code of Hammurabi, in Room 227 of the Richelieu wing. Peering into the glass cases nearby, I discovered ...

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 ...

Scholars had only recently succeeded in cracking the code to the region's history: the complex cuneiform (wedge-shaped) script in which most of the ancient Mesopotamian texts were written.