A recent study published in the Journal of Archaeological Science has revealed the materials and techniques used in the production of writing tablets from the Neo-Assyrian Empire, found in the ruins ...

Neo-Assyrian tablet, one of a set of sixteen writing tablets hinged together as a folding set. Credit: The Trustees of the British Museum. Shared under a CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 licence. A new study has ...

A new study has revealed how Neo-Assyrian writing boards were made, offering the earliest known example of cuneiform writing on wax. These ancient boards, uncovered in the ruins of Nimrud in ...

Fragment of a Neo-Assyrian tablet preserving wax, in the British Museum. (The Trustees of the British Museum) The writing boards excavated from Nimrud (modern Iraq) represent the first material ...

Ashurbanipal assembled his library at Nineveh in the seventh century BC. Today known as Mosul in Iraq, Nineveh was then the most splendid – and largest – city on Earth, and the seat of the ...

This group will now prepare to face 31 other elite teams this summer at the NFL National Flag Football Tournament. “This win wasn’t just about talent—it was about heart, preparation, and ...

In 1911, the explorer Gertrude Bell visited the German excavations at Ashur, the founding capital of the Assyrian empire. Emerging from communities on the banks of the Tigris, in present-day Iraq ...

The session’s first speaker, Dr. Juha Lahnakoski, presented a study into embodied emotions in Neo-Assyrian texts. The relationship between emotions and the body is twofold: on one hand, our ...

This was the office of Salem Abdullah, archaeological director of the ancient city of Assur, which once thrived on this rock as the capital of the Assyrian Empire. Abdullah, who was raised in a ...