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

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

A roughly 4,800-year-old royal Mesopotamian cemetery in eastern Turkey appears to complicate existing theories about how some ...

The oldest reference in the first known writing — cuneiform — was not about gods or kings, but about beer. Lots of it. It was ...

Apr 03, 1327 Marsilius of Padua and John of Jandun ...