Those who are interested in cuneiform decipherment will remember that some few years ago the Trustees of the British Museum began to publish a series of classified Assyrian and Babylonian texts ...

Investigating the reign of Mesopotamia’s mosteccentric ruler ...

This volume offers a practical introduction to the repertoire of personal names recorded in cuneiform texts from Babylonia in the first millennium BCE. In this period, individuals moved freely as well ...

An obscure Babylonian document from the world famous Dead Sea Scroll collection was almost certainly a precursor to the Jewish calendar according to University of Manchester research. Dr Helen Jacobus ...

Pergamon Museum, Berlin Photograph by BPK/Scala, Florence It is, perhaps, little surprise that so much confusion surrounds Babylon when texts by Greek and Roman authors often confused Assyrians ...

The 3,000-year-old Babylonian tablet has puzzled archaeologists for centuries with experts only uncovering the true meaning behind the mysterious relic in the past few weeks. The patterned ...