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 ...

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 ...

When the Assyrian Empire came along, Gaza went through the same turmoil as Israel and Judah and was under the same threat. Gaza went back and forth, being conquered by Assyria, then Egypt, 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 ...

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 ...

The presence of Roman remains in Vienna is not unexpected, as ancient Vindobona was an important military garrison of the Roman Empire and laid the foundation for the modern city. However, this ...

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maybe as part of an army force that arrived at the site following the collapse of the Assyrian Empire," he added. He also said that the Grecian pottery may be proof of Greek mercenaries in the ...

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 ...