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 ...

A previously undocumented language has been discovered at the site of Boğazköy-Hattusha, the former capital of the Hittite ...

In 2017, the U.S. government filed a lawsuit with the curious title of the United States of America vs. Approximately Four ...

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 ...

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 ...

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There are many cities that archaeologists have never been able to locate, including capitals of major kingdoms and empires. A Live Science article revisits six of these lost places whose existence is ...