Without delving too deeply into the weeds here, the Akkadian Empire was a Mesopotamian nation from around 2300 to 2200 BCE. Though their language is extinct today, it had a profound effect on ...

What I would love to see discovered in 2025 is a bilingual inscription (on any medium—stone, pottery, metal) of a Mesopotamian language and the Indus script.

In the last 200 years, archaeologists have found hundreds of thousands of texts that tell the history of ancient Mesopotamia, most of them written in Sumerian or Akkadian, explained the authors ...

Clay tablets inscribed with text written in the Akkadian language are key tools for understanding the cultures that existed in and around Mesopotamia – centred on present day Iraq – between ...

Science Ancient DNA shows genetic link between Egypt and Mesopotamia: ‘Highly significant’ By Associated Press Published July 2, 2025, 4:20 p.m. ET ...

The Department of Egyptology and Ancient Western Asian Studies is looking to hire a tenure-track professor to teach Mesopotamian language and cultures. The new professor is expected to teach Akkadian ...