Late 19th century drawings of the eagle and bull symbols published by French excavator Victor Place. (New York Public Library) Ancient symbols on a 2,700-year-old temple which have baffled experts for ...

Ancient Babylonians attributed prescient meaning to celestial events, a study published this month argues, shedding fresh light on the Mesopotamian people of the second millennium BC. The paper, ...

A renowned Turkish assyriologist has been shedding light on extinct languages for over 56 years. Veysel Donbaz, who retired from working as a manager of cuneiform archive department in Istanbul’s ...