A team of researchers from the British Museum, led by Diego Tamburini, recently examined the tablet fragments using advanced ...

Fragment of a Neo-Assyrian tablet preserving wax, in the British Museum. ( The Trustees of the British Museum) The writing ...

The British Museum, renowned for its vast and diverse collection of over eight million artifacts, continues to draw global ...

The Western Range makes up one third of the museum’s footprint and is home to the collections from ancient Egypt, Greece, and ...

Librarians will continue to go to great lengths to preserve people's access to information, whether they are ancient scrolls ...

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

The geopolitical importance of Cyprus has been both a blessing and a curse, sparking centuries of conflict over control of ...

In this article, Jeremy Salt chronicles the deliberate destruction of Gaza's people, history, culture, and identity.

I received this consolatory message, “This must make Americans and Europeans feel culturally small” triggering the Bob Marley ...

Cyrus proclaimed himself ‘king of the four corners of the world’ in the famous Cyrus Cylinder, one of the most admired objects in the British Museum ... A comparison of Assyrian and Persian ...