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

Researchers previously assumed that some of the graves at the site were royal burials. A new study presents a different ...

The rich history of ancient Egypt involves power struggles, amazing feats of engineering, advances in writing and art, and ...

Eight human sacrifices were found at the entrance to this tomb, which held the remains of two 12-year-olds from ancient ...

An Honorary Fellow at Oxford University's Wolfson College, Moudhy has spent much of her career translating the stories of the ...

Oxford historian, Dr Moudhy Al Rashid, on her book Between Two Rivers: Ancient Mesopotamia and the Birth of History ...

Historians estimate they were actually put into writing around the middle of the 6th century. Homer, along with Hesiod, is one of the most celbrated ancient Greek epic poets ... creating drama for the ...

Mallowan and Woolley found bricks and cylinders buried within buildings’ foundations, inscribed with cuneiform writing ... is like the Springfield of ancient Mesopotamia—many regions had ...

A team of archaeologists in Iraq, led by Sebastian Rey, the British Museum’s curator of ancient Mesopotamia ... who invented writing at the end of the fourth millennium BC”.

The tablets were discovered in the Sumerian site of Girsu, called Tello today ... the British Museum’s curator for ancient Mesopotamia, tells the Observer’s Dalya Alberge.