The ancient Assyrian language is classified as Akkadian; it was the language of the Assyrians and Babylonians, written in Cuneiform. To facilitate administrative tasks of the Assyrian Empire Aramaic ...

Saana Svärd, Tero Alstola, Heidi Jauhiainen, Aleksi Sahala, and Krister Lindén. 2020. “Fear in Akkadian Texts: New Digital Perspectives on Lexical Semantics.” In Shih-Wei Hsu and Jaume Llop-Raduà (eds ...

Ancient objects each tell their own unique stories, the University of Chicago undergraduate has learned. Through her work on Akkadian—the language of ancient Babylonia—the fourth-year student has ...

Here, we explore six notable civilizations that have collapsed, shedding light on some of the causes behind their demise and ...

The modern word ziggurat is derived from the ancient Akkadian word ziggarratu, which means “temple tower.” The word now ...

In Karen Sonik and Ulrike Steinert (eds.), The Routledge Handbook of Emotions in the Ancient Near East. London: Routledge, pp. 88-116. Saana Svärd, Tero Alstola, Heidi Jauhiainen, Aleksi Sahala, and ...

Some of the artefacts have been contributed by the British Museum. One of the artefacts on display shows ancient Akkadian script on a tablet while another shares images of archers on a limestone ...

TEHRAN - The historic ziggurat of Tchogha Zanbil in southwest Iran, a UNESCO World Heritage site, has taken significant steps ...