An Honorary Fellow at Oxford University's Wolfson College, Moudhy has spent much of her career translating the stories of the ...

The UNESCO World Heritage Site of Boğazköy-Hattuša is located in the north of Turkey. It was once the capital of the Hittite ...

The finds, which also include dozens of clay sealings, contain details of a metric system used to measure resources, as well ...

The artifacts were excavated from a city dating back to the third millennium B.C.E. by researchers from Iraq and the British ...

When a vast library of texts amassed by Mesopotamian King Ashurbanipal was burned to the ground about 2700 years ago, the ...

It would take the decipherment of cuneiform, however, for any Elamite history to come to light. Sumerian scribes referred to the land immediately to their east using the logogrammatic sign NIM. In ...

Going big and going early leads to an uptick in public interest and in those necessary donations. Unfortunately, it also ...

Best-selling author Joshua Hammer joins John Williams to discuss his new book, “The Mesopotamian Riddle.” Joshua talks about ...

One of the challenges posed by cuneiform was determining whether ... an international smuggler of endangered birds, fills “The Mesopotamian Riddle” with colorful figures and quips.

pieces together a vivid portrait of Mesopotamian life from the shattered remnants of the 30,000 or so tablets in Ashurbanipal’s library. Written in cuneiform, the world’s oldest form of ...