Archaeologists uncovered portions of a monumental relief of the Assyrian king Ashurbanipal in the throne room of his palace in Nineveh.
Christopher Jones explores questions related to Sennacherib’s assassination.
Scientists have discovered the evidence for leprosy that dates to the third millennium BC.
In a new study on Pompeii, “scientists documented events at one home in the doomed city where a family sought refuge inside a back room by pushing a wooden bed against a door in a vain attempt to stop a flood of volcanic rocks from the sky.”
Turkish authorities arrested four individuals who had discovered a Roman mosaic during illegal excavations at their house.
“Gojko Barjamovic, a lecturer at Yale University, along with a team from Harvard, deciphered and even attempted to recreate some of the dishes detailed on Babylonian clay tablets dating back nearly 4,000 years.”
David M. Pritchard explains why “sport in ancient Athens was much more than the Olympics.”
Aish.com has published a primer on the Cairo Geniza.
“The ancient bilingual inscriptions of Karatepe Aslantas Open-Air Museum in Osmaniye, Türkiye, have been officially inscribed into the UNESCO Memory of the World International Register.”
“Friends of ASOR is pleased to announce its first tour of some of Chicago’s greatest museums on September 18 and 19 for an exclusive behind-the-scenes experience.”
Live Science explains how archaeologists can determine the sex of a skeleton.
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