They authored massive archives of cuneiform tablets containing numerous ancient languages and sacred rituals. Their kings benefited from trade routes that reached far beyond the Hittite homeland ...

Nowadays, most people associate artificial intelligence with language models like ChatGPT. However, machine learning can do more than generate text. In the fields of archaeology and philology, A.I ...

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is a PhD candidate in the Department of Comparative Literature at the University of California, Berkeley and a member of the Renaissance and Early Modern Studies Designated Emphasis programme.

The juxtaposition of these spare, beautiful and atavistic sculptures with their cultural and spiritual undercurrents, set against the extravagant 18th-century splendour, creates a subtle dialogue that ...

Cuneiform tablets from ancient Mesopotamia cover a range of topics, from exorcising ghosts to uncovering the location of Noah’s Ark. Cuneiform tablet, c. 2nd–1st century B.C.E., Mesopotamia ...

an omnipresence so pervasive in daily life that—even a decade after I used it with any regularity—its ringtone still grabs my attention with an atavistic intensity. While it was the early ...

It actually is a deformity at the metatarsal cuneiform joint," said Howard. Delight Parman told WINK News health and medical reporter Amy Oshier she had been struggling with her bunion for 12 to ...

Other chapters explore cuneiform script (the world’s first known writing), cities, leadership, education (including some of the earliest doodles by bored students), early scientific developments ...