Across the globe, a race is under way to crack some of the last mysterious forms of writing that have never been translated.

Last week Iceland became the fifth nation to boycott Eurovision 2026 due to Israel’s participation.

Excavations at the ancient Anatolian city of Kanesh in Turkey have revealed a district where merchants from the distant Mesopotamian city of Assur in Iraq lived and worked. Some 23,000 cuneiform ...

The divine procession ls led by Hadad, Mesopotamian god of storms (far right, clutching a trio of lightning bolts); the moon god Sîn; the sun god Šamaš; and Atargatis, the region’s goddess of ...