Mesopotamia
Neo-Assyrian Writing Boards: The Role of Beeswax, Orpiment, and Carbon Black in 7th Century BC Writing Techniques
Recent scientific investigations into the writing boards excavated from the ancient Assyrian city of Nimrud have...
Archaeologists Uncover Extensive Ancient Irrigation Network in Eridu, the World’s First City
Recent research by a multidisciplinary team of archaeologists and geologists has revealed that the Eridu region...
Archaeologists Discovered Remarkably Preserved Shrines inside the Assyrian Temple of Ninurta, in Nimrud
Recent archaeological work in Nimrud, led by the Penn Museum in collaboration with Iraqi archaeologists, has...
A new magnetic survey of the ancient Assyrian capital of Khorsabad has revealed a 127-room villa twice the size of the U.S. White House
Archaeologists in northern Iraq have conducted an extensive magnetic survey using an exhaustive magnetic survey at...
KIŠIB: A Digital Archive From 80,000 Mesopotamian Seals is Being Created
Over the next 16 years, a research team from the Institute for Near Eastern Archaeology at...
Excavations at a 4th millennium BC settlement uncover evidence for the emergence and rejection of the earliest state institutions in Iraq
New excavations of the 4th-millennium B.C settlement at the archaeological site of Shakhi Kora, located in...
Oldest known alphabet unearthed in ancient Syrian city -500 years older than thought
Johns Hopkins University researchers uncovered evidence of the oldest alphabetic writing in human history. The writing...
Ancient Mesopotamian Cylinder Seals Offer Clues to the Origin of Writing
Researchers from the University of Bologna have discovered an association between proto-cuneiform and even older stone...
Mystery of the World’s Oldest Map on a Nearly 3,000-year-old Babylonian Tablet Finally Solved
A recent British Museum video reveals that the "oldest map of the world in the world"...
Ancient Babylon Excavation Uncovers 478 Artifacts Including Cuneiform Tablets, and Cylindrical Seals
The Iraqi State Board of Antiquities and Heritage (SBAH) announced that 478 artifacts were uncovered during...