Researchers have rediscovered a long-lost Babylonian hymn from 1000 BCE, using artificial intelligence to piece together ...

To unlock the secrets of ancient civilizations, a new artificial intelligence (AI) application has emerged, breathing new life into deciphering ancient cuneiform tablets. This AI technology utilizes ...

In a fascinating discovery, archaeologists have unearthed a 4,500-year-old limestone tablet inscribed with a chilling royal ...

Scholars have finally deciphered 4,000-year-old cuneiform tablets found more than 100 years ago in what is now Iraq. The tablets describe how some lunar eclipses are omens of death, destruction and ...

The seal is thought to be from the same time period when Assyria conquered Judah and made it a vassal state required to pay ...

Cuneiform tablets from ancient Mesopotamia cover a range of topics, from exorcising ghosts to uncovering the location of Noah’s Ark. Cuneiform tablet, c. 2nd–1st century B.C.E., Mesopotamia, probably ...

Johns Hopkins Assyriologist Jacob Lauinger has the rare privilege of translating a once-in-a-lifetime archaeological find: a small, 3,500-year-old cuneiform tablet unearthed in February 2023 after a ...

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An Assyrian gypsum cuneiform dedicatory panel, reign of Tukulti-Ninurta I, circa 1243-1207 BC. Of rectangular form, finely engraved on both sides, with 280 lines of text divided into eight columns ...

Here's what we know about Zaze. She was a woman. She lived some 3,500 years ago in southeastern Turkey. And as the manager—or maybe owner—of a furniture workshop, she employed at least seven ...

HATAY, TURKEY—According to an Anadolu Agency report, Murat Akar of Hatay Mustafa Kemal University and his colleagues discovered a 3,800-year-old clay cuneiform tablet while working at the site of a ...

Millennia ago, someone in the province of Hatay in Turkey made a shopping list that would surprisingly survive the ravages of time. During restoration works after an earthquake, archaeologists digging ...