Two ancient clay tablets unearthed in Iraq have unveiled details of a long-lost Canaanite language closely tied to ancient ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

A learned man, he restored the region’s ancient architectural and cultural traditions, especially those from the Akkadian Empire, which had dominated Mesopotamia in the third millennium B.C.—a ...

2020. “Fear in Akkadian Texts: New Digital Perspectives on Lexical Semantics.” In Shih-Wei Hsu and Jaume Llop-Raduà (eds.) The Expression of Emotions in Ancient Egypt and Mesopotamia. Culture and ...