The 1850 discovery of King Ashurbanipal's vast library of cuneiform tablets at Nineveh illuminated fascinating records and ...

Baghdad: Iraq s Dhi Qar Antiquities Inspectorate announced major archaeological and architectural discoveries this season, ...

New analysis of ancient Mesopotamian medical prescriptions suggests that, in a small but striking set of cases, patients were instructed to seek out the sanctuary of a deity as part of their healing ...

Arabic and Hebrew belong to the Semitic language family, a group of languages spoken primarily throughout North Africa and ...

The five-week Semitic Sisters class is funded by the university's Faculty Dialogue Innovation Fund, designed to promote ...

In a study published in the journal Iraq, Dr. Troels Arbøll analyzed medical prescriptions from ancient Mesopotamia to ...

A long-lost, popular song used in Babylon schools has been reconstructed, revealing how children learned to write and civic ...

Around 2112 B.C., the Sumerian king Ur-Namma (r. 2112–2095 B.C.) united the city-states of southern Mesopotamia into a short-lived kingdom known today as the Third Dynasty of Ur, or Ur III. More than ...

More than 4,500 years ago, in one of humanity’s earliest civilizations, gender-diverse individuals held respected and ...

Explore the Zayed National Museum's captivating narrative of the UAE's history through an Arab perspective, showcasing ...

Gender-ambiguous people in ancient Mesopotamia were powerful and important members of society more than four millennia ago.

It’s not every day you get to see a map that wasn’t fully known,” said Altoona Area Public Library’s archivist Joshua ...