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…
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28 November 2024
7,700-year-old Pottery of a Human Head and Jewelry Workshop Unearthed in Kuwait
A team of Kuwaiti and Polish archaeologists have uncovered a jewelry workshop at the prehistoric Ubaid…
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"…
10 August 2024
Deadly Omens Revealed from 4,000-year-old Babylonian Tablets
Researchers successfully deciphered 4,000-year-old cuneiform tablets discovered over a century ago in what is now Iraq. …
29 January 2024
Twin temples linked to Hercules and Alexander the Great discovered in Sumerian city of Girsu
Archaeologists discovered two temples, with one buried over the other, during excavations at Girsu, a Sumerian…
19 December 2023
Mesopotamian bricks reveal the strength of Earth’s ancient magnetic field
Ancient Mesopotamian bricks reveal the details of a curious strengthening of the Earth’s magnetic field, according…
18 May 2023
New study says earliest recorded kiss occurred 4500 years ago in Mesopotamia
The University of Copenhagen according to researchers, humanity's earliest recorded kiss occurred around 4,500 years ago…
2 February 2023
5,000-Year-Old public eating space with food still inside discovered in ancient Lagash
Archaeologists have unearthed the remains of a public eating space that’s nearly 5,000 years old in…
24 July 2022
The 3,200-year-old perfume of Tapputi, the first female chemist in history, came to life again
One of the scent formulas written in Akkadian on clay tablets by Tapputi, known as the…