The artifacts were excavated from a city dating back to the third millennium B.C.E. by researchers from Iraq and the British ...

The ancient Assyrian language is classified as Akkadian; it was the language of the Assyrians and Babylonians, written in Cuneiform. To facilitate administrative tasks of the Assyrian Empire Aramaic ...

The finds, which also include dozens of clay sealings, contain details of a metric system used to measure resources, as well ...

Ancient stone tablets show government red tape goes back 4,000 years, say scientists - The administrative tablets give a rare ...

Saana Svärd, Tero Alstola, Heidi Jauhiainen, Aleksi Sahala, and Krister Lindén. 2020. “Fear in Akkadian Texts: New Digital Perspectives on Lexical Semantics.” In Shih-Wei Hsu and Jaume Llop-Raduà (eds ...

Archaeologists from the British Museum and Iraq have uncovered over 200 4,000-year-old cuneiform tablets at Girsu, shedding ...