“There were 117 Assyrian kings. When these kings died ... topsoil washes away and artifacts—pot- sherds and even cuneiform tablets and statuettes—emerge on the surface of the ground.

Researchers have managed to decipher four 4,000-year-old Babylonian cuneiform tablets that predict future disasters based on lunar eclipses. The tablets, which are kept at the British Museum and ...

The lead tablets of Dodona are a unicum in the ancient Greek world dated from the 6th century BC to the mid-2nd century BC. They are small pieces of lead strips (measuring not more than ca. 13,20 cm ...

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They authored massive archives of cuneiform tablets containing numerous ancient languages and sacred rituals. Their kings benefited from trade routes that reached far beyond the Hittite homeland ...

2,900 years ago, Assyrian king Ashurnasirpal ... ate them in the many surviving cuneiform texts that were written around this time, usually on clay tablets. These include several culinary recipes ...

A massive stone relief depicting King Ashurbanipal, one of the most powerful rulers of the Assyrian Empire, has been uncovered by a Heidelberg University excavation team, according to Ancient Origins.