Indeed, the Iraqi dictator was said to be so immersed in his novel-writing that he left much of the military strategising to his sons leading up to the 2003 war. He continued writing in prison, using ...

Translating the ancients The story of deciphering cuneiform starts with the so-called Behistun Inscription. Discovered in Iran and dating back to the time of King Darius I of Persia (550 BC), this ...

CLAY TABLET. FOUND: Babylon, Iraq. CULTURE: Late Babylonian. DATE: A.D. 62. LANGUAGE: Akkadian. (The Trustees of the British Museum) In early 2016, hundreds of media outlets around the world reported ...

Tel Yaqush cylinder-seal artefact. A Late 4th millennium cylinder-seal amulet from Tel Yaqush and its contribution to the understanding of Early Bronze Age I–II communities in the Central Jordan ...

1, Looking backwards and forwards -- 2. Going to school -- 3. Who used cuneiform writing? -- 4. How do we understand it, anyway? -- 5. The scribe revealed -- 6. What happened to cuneiform? -- 7. How ...

TEHRAN (MNA) -- Four brick inscriptions discovered at the 3000-year-old site of Rabat Tepe 2 in northwestern Iran substantiate that the Assyrian king Sargon II invaded the region. The 10 ...