#Nimrud

Five years ago today, Islamic State beheaded the Syrian archaeologist Khaled al-Asaad in Palmyra. The jhadis had conquered the city a few weeks before and were setting about their own
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If you’re someone like me who sometimes has a difficult time picturing ancient history, here are some of my favorite and accurate artistic representations/photos of ancient Mesopotamia This drawing is
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Brilliant new resource for the field that might also be fun to peruse.These administrative records from Neo-Assyrian palaces, forts, private archives, and elsewhere paint a detailed picture of what it
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Today I am going to tell you about a legal term from real estate transactions in the Middle East dating back 2,800 or more years.The term is bētu epšu adi
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The cosmic movements of the heavenly bodies has always intrigued mankind all throughout history. To depict this "moving of the gods", the earliest civilizations used feathered wings to symbolize the
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