New analysis of ancient Mesopotamian medical prescriptions suggests that, in a small but striking set of cases, patients were instructed to seek out the sanctuary of a deity as part of their healing ...

The five-week Semitic Sisters class is funded by the university's Faculty Dialogue Innovation Fund, designed to promote ...

The 1850 discovery of King Ashurbanipal's vast library of cuneiform tablets at Nineveh illuminated fascinating records and ...

A long-lost, popular song used in Babylon schools has been reconstructed, revealing how children learned to write and civic ...

As early as 4,500 years ago in ancient Mesopotamia, for instance, gender-diverse people held important roles in society with ...

A previously undocumented language has been discovered at the site of Boğazköy-Hattusha, the former capital of the Hittite ...

In 2017, the U.S. government filed a lawsuit with the curious title of the United States of America vs. Approximately Four ...

Today, trans people face politicization of their lives and vilification from politicians, media and parts of broader society.

Tell el-Amarna is the Arabic name of the place where, in 1430 BCE, Pharaoh Akhenaten built a city that was to become the capital of the Egyptian Empire: Akhetaten, which means Horizon of Aten. There, ...

A tiny, extremely rare pottery sherd bearing a cuneiform inscription in the Akkadian language from about 2,700 years ago was discovered in an archaeological excavation near the Western Wall of the ...

The man in the center with the full white beard is Mr. Finkel, an expert on cuneiform writing. The British Museum has 130,000 cuneiform clay tablets waiting to be deciphered. Finkel has a clay tablet ...