This librarian wanted to know much more about the organisation of knowledge in Ashurbanipal's library, as there is a fair ...

Pope Francis received a Lamborghini Huracán, a gift he promptly decided to auction for charity. The supercar, painted in ...

Wisnom’s book recounts the labours of the excavators who uncovered more than 30,000 clay tablets and fragments in the mound of earth that covered the ancient city of Nineveh (not far from the ...

Machelle Wilson, a UC Davis statistician who approached her three children and five grandchildren with the same boundless ...

In fact, archaeological evidence for the vast network of Palmyrene merchants is found as far away as modern-day England, Turkmenistan and Bahrain. Considered one of the Roman Empire’s leading ...

Wilson had a fairly conservative upbringing in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints ... he remembered arguing with his mother about modern monetary theory. “She definitely created ...

he became one of the leading translators of his day. In 1872, Smith was studying a particular tablet from Nineveh (modern Iraq) and that's what I want to look at now. I've walked across the museum ...

On a long table were pieces of clay tablets, among the hundreds of thousands that archaeologists had shipped back to London from Nineveh, in present-day Iraq ... All modern scholarship on ...