Ancient Assyrian stone tablets represent the oldest known reports of auroras, dating to more than 2,500 years ago. The descriptions, written in cuneiform, were found on three stone tablets ...

represent the first material evidence of cuneiform writing on wax. The tablets were discovered during excavations carried out in the 1950s at the Northwest Palace of Nimrud, one of the capitals of the ...

Languages; English. Evidence of unusual solar activity that potentially represents three huge solar storms has been discovered in ancient Assyrian cuneiform tablets. The magnetic storms documented ...

Some 23,000 cuneiform tablets, mostly dating from about 1900 to 1840 B.C., have been found in the merchants’ personal archives in Kanesh.(Attraction Art/Adobe Stock) The parents of an Assyrian ...

The cuneiform tablets studied by the UCL team extend this ... embarrassing the temple scholars in front of the whole city. These Neo-Assyrian and Old Babylonian astrologers gave us more than ...

A Neo-Assyrian cuneiform fragment of the Flood or Gilgamesh Tablet from the seventh century B.C. British Museum/Scala, Florence When trying to discuss Ashurbanipal’s greatness as a world leader ...

Where it was found: Nineveh (also known as Kouyunjik), an ancient Assyrian city in Upper Mesopotamia ... archaeologists have ...

The substitute-king ritual is associated with the Neo-Assyrian period ... One hundred or so public galleries stuffed with cuneiform tablets would excite very few visitors.” ...

The next-earliest description of a candidate aurora is found on Assyrian cuneiform tablets dated between 679-655 BCE, three centuries later. As we've reported previously, the spectacular ...

Cuneiform tablets from ancient Mesopotamia cover a ... poems and the Imago Mundi referring to “Urartu,” Ararat’s Assyrian name. In 2015, the Bible Lands Museum in Jerusalem exhibited a ...