When archaeologists uncovered more than 25,000 ancient tablets at the ruins of Mari, they found something rare in the Bronze Age world, a king with a genuine human personality. This is the story of ...

When excavators explored (and emptied) King Tuntankhamun’s tomb in the 1920s, they found a lot of magnificent artifacts. The 5,398 officially noted burial objects included ceremonial figurines, ...

For nearly a century, historians have relied on the Assyrian King List as the authoritative record of who ruled the ancient Assyrian Empire, especially during its later centuries. Now, new research ...

An Assyrian royal relief evokes the power and ceremonial authority of kings whose official chronology may have concealed ...

These previously unrecognized Neo-Assyrian (circa 1000 to 609 BCE) kings have been discovered and described in a recent study ...

Mehmet Kusman did not spend very long at school, but he traced the ancient inscriptions chiselled into the black basalt rock ...

New secrets from our past have been coming out in droves.

Cuneiform is one of the earliest writing systems in human history. Archaeologists have traced its beginnings to around 3400–3300 BC, more than 5,000 years ago. It also lasted for a remarkably long ...

A comprehensive scholarly volume on Linear Elamite inscriptions and related cuneiform texts has recently been published, ...