Going big and going early leads to an uptick in public interest and in those necessary donations. Unfortunately, it also ...

Readers of the Bible are probably familiar with the god ... a northern Semitic language and written in the Mesopotamian cuneiform script. A number of documents were found in the archeological ...

I am anticipating a deluge of angry letters from people listing off important persons named Elimelech that I’ve ignored, but the truth remains that despite the continued use of that personal name si ...

A few cuneiform inscriptions had been deciphered and striking parallels were discovered in them to some of the legends of the Bible and to some of its legislation. A Babylonian version of the ...

Buried for millennia, the tablets were written in cuneiform: the first written language ... and whose myths were precursors to Bible stories – in short, a culture without which our lives today ...

The earliest known libraries date back to the 7th century B.C., such as the Library of Ashurbanipal in Nineveh, which housed a vast collection of cuneiform ... the Gutenberg Bible, a treasure ...

Best-selling author Joshua Hammer joins John Williams to discuss his new book, “The Mesopotamian Riddle.” Joshua talks about ...

Deciphering some people's writing can be a major challenge—especially when that writing is cuneiform characters imprinted onto 3,000-year-old tablets. Now, Middle East scholars can use ...

Beyond her academic work, Moudhy has also been a prominent figure on social media because of her fascinating translations of the first form of writing known as cuneiform.