AI takes care of deciphering ancient damaged inscriptions and difficult-to-read ancient characters, doing in seconds what would take an expert hours. A research team at Ludwig Maximilian University ...

A 2,550-year-old inscription, written in the name of Nabonidus, the last king of Babylon, has been discovered carved on basalt stone in northern Saudi Arabia, the Saudi Commission for Tourism and ...

The Babylonians, who lived in central-southern Mesopotamia (present-day Iraq and parts of Syria and Iran), predicted omens by analyzing the time of night, movement of shadows, duration, and date of ...

Click to open image viewer. Excavation of Persepolis (Iran): Squeeze of "Foundation Inscriptions," DPg, Akkadian Version, Inscribed on Southern Terrace Wall CC0 Usage Conditions ApplyClick for more ...

For at least 500 years, Babylonian children were tasked with memorizing a hymn that celebrated the city of Babylon, its citizenry, and chief deity Marduk. There was much to praise: the city was ...

The research, led by Dr. Johannes Hackl of Friedrich Schiller University Jena and conducted with the support of the Bisotun World Heritage Base and Iran’s Ministry of Cultural Heritage, Tourism and ...

Deciphering a 4,000-year-old clay tablet found in what is now Iraq has revealed that it contains inscriptions about calamities such as the death of a king, the fall of a city, and plague, all of which ...

Mojtaba Doroudi underlined that Arfa’i was a pioneer and the first Iranian scholar to achieve mastery in Elamite and Old Babylonian, languages used in many Achaemenid tablets and inscriptions. “Arfa’i ...