They fought the Egyptians, sacked Babylon, and built elaborate cities. Then the Hittites vanished. Today, new discoveries are ...

A team of archaeologists in Iraq, led by Sebastian Rey, the British Museum’s curator of ancient Mesopotamia, has uncovered compelling evidence of the empire’s formidable bureaucracy.

Yet, renewed efforts are on to forge a ‘hard state’, raising two questions: before opting for an authoritarian or military ...

Or, had rulers been genuinely wary of public and institutional ... From the founding of the Akkadian Empire (2350 to 2150 BCE) to the present day, the world has seen a bloody scramble for ...

It is the generic term for any and every deity, similar to the West Semitic root word EL as it is found in Sumerian and Akkadian, Ellil-Enlil, in Hittite and Hurrian as Ellel, in Hebrew El-Elohim ...

One gallery is devoted to the world’s first empire, the Akkadian dynasty ... depicts a deified ruler and the goddess Ishtar, invoked in matters of war, love and fertility, along with vanquished ...

Written in Akkadian, the language of ancient Mesopotamia, these texts were used by Babylonian rulers to interpret celestial events as signs of future calamities. Lunar eclipses, in particular ...

There were partial breakthroughs on the names of ancient rulers like Darius and Xerxes ... Darius’ 19 successful battles written in Akkadian, Ekamite and Old Persian, it became possible to ...