On March 21, as the world marked World Poetry Day, many questions came to mind, among them, the one chosen as the title of this discourse. Like other cultures around the globe, our culture as ...

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

The King Salman Global Academy for Arabic Language (KSGAAL) and Indiana University have launched a specialized academic ...

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

The Glenfiddich bottle is triangular in shape to represent the three pillars of whisky making: air, water and barley.

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Worried about saying the wrong thing when talking about neurodiversity? This guide breaks down the basics: what to say, what to avoid, and why it matters.

Today we would call him an Assyriologist, an expert in the language and history of the ancient Mesopotamian cultures that wrote Sumerian and Akkadian in cuneiform. Mallowan distinguished himself ...

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.

Marked with the administrative details of government, the tablets have illuminated the complicated bureaucracy of an ancient Mesopotamian civilization. The tablets were discovered in the Sumerian ...

It is one of the oldest and greatest stores of knowledge: a vast library of texts amassed by Assyrian King Ashurbanipal, who ruled ancient Mesopotamia about 2700 years ago. But after his death ...