Ancient scripts were a window into the linguistic practices of people, which were influenced by their cultural setting. A fragment of a Sumerian tablet was proof of this, as a team of researchers ...
The Sumerian creation myth can be found on a tablet in Nippur, an ancient Mesopotamian city founded in approximately 5000 BC. The creation of Earth ( Enuma Elish) according to the Sumerian tablets ...
A team of researchers has deciphered an ancient clay tablet that reveals a previously unknown myth from Sumerian mythology, featuring a storm god captured in the underworld and a clever fox who might ...
A Sumerian code has been deciphered, revealing "divinely inspired" building instructions A Sumerian “sacred code” has been deciphered, revealing divinely inspired building instructions echoed in the ...
Hundreds of ancient tablets confiscated from a billionaire antiques collector reveal what life was like in an ancient Sumerian city that flourished some 4,000 years ago. Since 2009, Hobby Lobby owner ...
Russell has a PhD in the history of medicine, violence, and colonialism. His research has explored topics including ethics, science governance, and medical involvement in violent contexts. Russell has ...
In southern Iraq, archaeologists have excavated a remarkable collection of carved clay tablets—ancient records of Akkadia, the world’s oldest empire. Marked with the administrative details of ...
Hundreds of 4,000 year old tablets that were looted in Iraq and bought by the U.S. company Hobby Lobby seem to hail from a mysterious Sumerian city whose whereabouts are unknown, a U.S. law ...
This is the first episode of a two-part series on the origin of jokes and humor. Listen to part two here. This episode originally aired on August 5, 2022. In the late 1800s, archeologists in Iraq ...
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