Professor Kulakoglu explains that many of the words, although Assyrian in origin -- a Semitic language considered an ancestor ...

A team of researchers from the British Museum, led by Diego Tamburini, recently examined the tablet fragments using advanced ...

represent the first material evidence of cuneiform writing on wax. The tablets were discovered during excavations carried out in the 1950s at the Northwest Palace of Nimrud, one of the capitals of the ...

The survey of the tablets was carried out to look for references to aurorae, that might match the evidence from tree ring ...

It is one of the oldest and greatest stores of knowledge: a vast library of texts amassed by Assyrian ... the 30,000 or so tablets in Ashurbanipal’s library. Written in cuneiform, the world ...

Where it was found: Nineveh (also known as Kouyunjik), an ancient Assyrian city in Upper Mesopotamia ... archaeologists have ...

Many of the fragments bore cuneiform hieroglyphs, and over the years scholars had managed to reassemble parts of some tablets ... of Mesopotamia's long-lost Assyrian Empire and publish ...

They informed Sir Henry Rawlinson, the foremost cuneiform scholar ... century B.C. Created when the Neo-Assyrian Empire stretched from Egypt to Turkey, the tablets were discovered in the 1850s ...

A recent study published in the Journal of Archaeological Science has revealed the materials and techniques used in the production of writing tablets from the Neo-Assyrian Empire ... the first ...

Fragment of a Neo-Assyrian tablet preserving wax, in the British Museum. ( The Trustees of the British Museum) The writing ...