The Hittites lived in Anatolia some 3,500 years ago. They used clay tablets to keep records of state treaties and decrees, prayers, myths, and summoning rituals, using a language that researchers were ...

Researchers see new possibilities in reconstructing knowledge of early cultures / Cooperation among the Berlin Vorderasiatisches Museum, the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science and the ...

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The Centre of Excellence in Ancient Near Eastern Empires has published an annotated text corpus of some 6,000 Babylonian texts from the sixth and fifth centuries BCE. The texts have been ...

Analyzing ancient texts on cuneiform, or clay tablets, may seem like an esoteric endeavor. Not so, say the scholars working on the Yale Cuneiform Commentaries Project (CCP). They argue that these are ...

In a windowless office at UCLA’s Kinsey Hall, professor Robert Englund is translating clay markings into bytes, turning one of the oldest forms of communication into one of the newest. Englund and a ...

v. 1. Tablets, cones, and bricks of the third and second millennia, B.C. / edited by Ira Spar -- v. 3. Private archive texts from the first millennium B.C. / Ira Spar and Eva von Dassow ; with ...

Introduction -- The simple group -- The expanded version -- A three-constellation version -- The cuneiform uranology texts : looking forward -- Appendix A. Star guide -- Appendix B. BM 66958 side B -- ...

ONE of the most interesting peoples of the ancient world was the Sumerian race, which founded the great civilisation of Babylonia. The cuneiform writing of western Asia was their invention, and the ...

In the podcast Totuuden liepeillä professors Arto Mustajoki and Saana Svärd discuss how we know what we know about ancient Mesopotamia – and what we can’t know. Assyriologists study the peoples, ...