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 ...

As an archaeologist, I understand that the darkened layer left when fire sweeps through a city draws a sharp line in time ...

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

Smith would later describe his find in his Assyrian Discoveries ... was in demand as a speaker, and the British Museum experienced an upsurge in attendance. And just as Smith had hoped, the ...

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

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

A particularly rich find was the library of Ashurbanipal, last great king of Assyria: in the 1850s ... tablets and fragments home to the British Museum; gradually scholars began to piece them ...

The British Museum has announced new trustee appointments—five well ... “Weekly pilgrimages with my father, then studying here, now dragging my kids around the Assyrian galleries,” she laughs. “I’ve ...

British Museum: 6.5 million (+11%) Natural History Museum ... Yet the museum remains a steward of human history, from Assyrian lion hunts to the Lewis Chessmen. The 2000 Great Court ...