15 May 2025
Archaeologists Unearth Monumental Relief Depicting Assyrian King and Major Deities in Ancient Nineveh
A team of archaeologists from Heidelberg University has made an extraordinary discovery in the ancient city…
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Mesopotamia
13 April 2025
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…
8 March 2025
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…
29 December 2024
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…
26 December 2024
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…
19 December 2024
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…
6 December 2024
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…
22 November 2024
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…
6 November 2024
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…
28 October 2024
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"…