To unlock the secrets of ancient civilizations, a new artificial intelligence (AI) application has emerged, breathing new life into deciphering ancient cuneiform tablets. This AI technology utilizes ...

Millennia ago, someone in the province of Hatay in Turkey made a shopping list that would surprisingly survive the ravages of time. During restoration works after an earthquake, archaeologists digging ...

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A team of researchers have successfully decoded 4,000-year-old writings on ancient Babylonian cuneiform tablets that had remained untranslated for over a century. The latest research focused on four ...

Excavations at the ancient Anatolian city of Kanesh in Turkey have revealed a district where merchants from the distant Mesopotamian city of Assur in Iraq lived and worked. Some 23,000 cuneiform ...

Here's what we know about Zaze. She was a woman. She lived some 3,500 years ago in southeastern Turkey. And as the manager—or maybe owner—of a furniture workshop, she employed at least seven ...

Part of a cretulae used to secure containers. (Universita di Pisa) A team of Italian and Iraqi archaeologists has unearthed hundreds of cuneiform tablets in central Iraq. They also uncovered some clay ...

Tablet inscribed with the extinct Akkadian language, Eski Alalah or Aççana Mound, Alalah, Turkey ALALAH, TURKEY—IFL Science reports that a cuneiform tablet unearthed in southern Turkey at the site of ...

Cuneiform tablets from ancient Mesopotamia cover a range of topics, from exorcising ghosts to uncovering the location of Noah’s Ark. Cuneiform tablet, c. 2nd–1st century B.C.E., Mesopotamia, probably ...

IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. This clay tablet from ancient ...

Scientists have proposed a way to use 4,000-year-old cuneiform tablets as a map to the world's ancient lost cities. More than 20,000 Assyrian clay tablets from the Bronze Age have been recovered in ...

A scholar spotted the long-overlooked image (its horns and face are at left, its legs on the right) while conducting research at a Berlin museum. Courtesy of Staatliche Museen zu Berlin - ...