Among the most striking and memorable exhibits in the British Museum are the Assyrian reliefs depicting the royal hunt. These ...

Its rediscovery in the 1960s revolutionized our understanding of the ancient Near East. Ebla’s importance lies in its ...

Reports of unexplained aerial phenomena have been recorded for centuries. However, there is no consensus on what constitutes ...

Although many researchers assume that birthday celebrations date back to the ancient Egyptians, the earliest textual evidence of a birthday party proves these annual events are much older.

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Stars were "the heavenly writing"; a sheep's liver was "the tablet of the gods". You have a date palm with two tops? People ...

The museum houses around 5,000 clay tablets engraved in cuneiform script. The vast majority (about 3,000) are considered to ...

Kissing is a big part of human culture. According to ancient cuneiform tablets found in Iraq, humans have been smooching since at least 2500 B.C. Around the world today, many societies share kisses in ...

The world’s oldest map, a 3,000-year-old Babylonian clay tablet known as the Imago Mundi, may reveal the location of an […] ...

The Rassam Cylinder is an ancient clay cylinder containing cuneiform inscriptions that describe the reign and military campaigns of Ashurbanipal, king of the Neo-Assyrian Empire. It was discovered in ...