A small clay tablet no larger than a modern handheld document is offering an extraordinary glimpse into the commercial world of Anatolia nearly 4,000 years ago. Now on display at the Kayseri ...
A fragment of a cuneiform seal that’s now the first direct evidence of official communication between the kingdoms of Judah and Assyria has emerged at an archaeological site in Israel. According to ...
The image of a stable Assyrian kingdom, with an orderly dynastic line and mostly peaceful father-to-son successions, has for ...
Ancient Assyrian merchants often jotted down commercial and economic details on tablets as any business owner would, but they also kept track of something with more sinister: blood money. Paying out ...
Two rare Assyrian tablets, believed to be the only ones of their kind in the United States, have been presented to Yale University’s Babylonian Collection by Mrs. Julia Kahn in memory of her mother ...
KAYSERİ, TURKEY—According to a Hürriyet Daily News report, three documents describing a local cheese have been uncovered at the site of Kültepe-Kaniş-Karum in central Anatolia. “It is understood from ...
Such a finding would shake up the popular understanding of how the crown has been passed down over the ages and leave ...