Apparently Old Persian and Elamite were comparatively easy, and he used those to work on the third and most ancient, the Semitic/Sumerian language known as Akkadian.

The translation of Sumerian tablet from Nippur reveals a rare myth of storm god Ishkur and the earliest trickster fox.

A recent study by Dr. Jana Matuszak, published in the academic journal Iraq, examines the mythical narrative contained in a ...

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The mysterious Harappan civilization is considered the third oldest in the ancient East after that of Egypt and Mesopotamia.

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Claims that a popular toy collectible was actually inspired by a demon from ancient folklore circulated online in July 2025. Some users claimed that Labubu, a cute, fuzzy monster ...

One such moment happened at the archaeological site of Boğazköy-Hattusha in Turkey, where researchers unveiled a clay tablet ...

At its peak some 3,000 years ago, the ancient Mesopotamian city of Babylon was the largest metropolis on Earth.

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Two hundred years ago, the son of a saddler from a rural French village devised a groundbreaking tactile writing method of ...

This description of the teething process comes from a 3,000-year-old medical handbook from ancient Assyria and Babylonia. The ...