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

In this context, recent research of ancient clay tablets dating to 1300 ... minds were in shatters. Some of the tablets were written by Assyrian physicians, who — with the limited scientific ...

It is one of the oldest and greatest stores of knowledge: a vast library of texts amassed by Assyrian King Ashurbanipal ... Luckily, the texts were written on clay tablets, and so were baked ...

2000 B.C. (2750) Assyrian merchant colonies in Cappadocia are well established by this time. From the Assyrian clay tablets found at these sites, trade with the city of Ashur in tin and textiles was ...

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

THE specimens of Assyrian medical texts which Mr. Campbell Thompson has translated are derived from Ashurbanapal's library of clay tablets, which was discovered in 1849 by Sir Austin Henry Layard ...

“There were 117 Assyrian kings. When these kings died ... The archaeologists recovered thousands of cylinder seals and baked clay tablets, some carved with cuneiform inscriptions written ...

Smith spent hours at the museum studying the clay tablets and teaching ... B.C. Created when the Neo-Assyrian Empire stretched from Egypt to Turkey, the tablets were discovered in the 1850s ...

Clay tablets unearthed at the site of Kanesh in Anatolia describe in detail an Assyrian merchants' colony there, the headquarters of an extensive commercial system, that linked two ancient cultures ...

Each came to grips with Assyria via freshly uncovered clay tablets that had outlasted its ... Mr. Hammer’s heroes found in the obscure vestiges of Assyrian bureaucrats and scribes an escape ...