Here's where ancient accounting technology gets truly sophisticated. Cylinder seals, dating back to 4,400 BC, functioned as ...

The 2,800 year-old tablets, one of silver and one of gold, bear identical cuneiform inscriptions praising King Ashurnasirpal II and telling of the building of his palace at the city of Apku, in ...

The $1.7 million cuneiform clay tablet was found in 1853 as part of a 12-tablet collection in the rubble of the library of Assyrian King Assur Banipal. Officials believe it was illegally imported ...

An Assyrian gypsum cuneiform dedicatory panel, reign of Tukulti-Ninurta I, circa 1243-1207 BC. Of rectangular form, finely engraved on both sides, with 280 lines of text divided into eight columns ...

The $1.7 million cuneiform clay tablet was found in 1853 as part of a 12-tablet collection in the rubble of the library of Assyrian King Assur Banipal. Officials believe it was illegally imported ...

Assyria to America examines the ancient and modern histories of Bowdoin’s six reliefs from ancient Nimrud bringing them together, for the first time in their 150-year history at Bowdoin, with ivory ...

For more on the many thousands of cuneiform tablets that have been uncovered at Kültepe, go to " Assyrian Women of Letters." (Courtesy Lutfi Yondri) ...

Archaeologists found a 3,500-year-old tablet inscribed with a massive furniture order in cuneiform writing. The artifact surfaced after earthquakes occurred in Turkey.