Dec 18 Blog
By: Nathan Steinmeyer
Where are the Hanging Gardens of Babylon? Today, the exact locations of six of the seven ancient Wonders of the World are known. Yet, the […]
Aug 26 Blog
While the Epic of Gilgamesh is one of the most famous ancient texts ever written and is available today in dozens of languages and editions, […]
Nov 3 Blog
Akkadian, the language of the ancient Babylonians and Assyrians, was once the lingua franca of the entire Near East. Despite dying out as a language […]
May 8 Blog
Assyriologists spend their entire careers translating cuneiform texts, yet today, hundreds of thousands of inscriptions written in the languages of this ancient script—the earliest in […]
Oct 28 Blog
By: Megan Sauter
In the sixth century B.C.E., the Neo-Babylonian king Nabonidus inscribed imperial propaganda on a cliff at Sela, a mountain fortress in modern Jordan, after conquering the Edomite site. The 10-by-6.5-foot inscription rests 300 feet above ground—halfway up a 600-foot-tall cliff!
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