Experts have begun the restoration of the largest inscription of King Darius the Great at Persepolis after years of erosion ...

A clay tablet, almost 4,000 years old, reveals how a Mesopotamian man named Nanni took matters into his own hands when he ...

Almost 4,000 years ago, a Mesopotamian man named Nanni was so disappointed with the copper he bought from a trader named ...

The translation of ancient Assyrian writing into modern languages was a challenge that had long vexed historians. Three ...

ProtoSnap uses computer vision to scan the pixels in a picture of a cuneiform table and compares them to a series of ...

Zaatar W Zeit, the F&B space from Lebanon in operation since 1999, made its foray into Mumbai at Pali Naka over the weekend.

The UNESCO World Heritage Site of Boğazköy-Hattuša is located in the north of Turkey. It was once the capital of the Hittite ...

The Iranian western city of Kermanshah is considered one of the cradles of prehistoric cultures, because of its antiquity, attractive landscapes, rich culture, and Neolithic villages.

The cuneiform tablets discovered there and in other Hittite sites represent one of the largest groups of texts from the ancient Near East. They include thousands of sources in Hittite, an ...

A stunning Ancient Egyptian gold pendant ... or ritual practices. Lot 398 - Akkadian Lapis Lazuli Cylinder Seal A stunning Akkadian cylinder seal carved from lapis lazuli, a stone deeply associated ...

offering a detailed record of the early Akkadian empire. These 4,000-year-old tablets, uncovered at the ancient Sumerian city of Girsu (modern-day Tello), reveal everything from the mundane to the ...