Their cultural and philosophical remains remind us of the pathways in which human progress finds its place and the need to preserve and study our collective heritage. Mesopotamia, often known as ...

This monograph is an essential resource for specialists and students of the New Testament as well as for scholars interested in religious transmission in the ancient Near East and the afterlife of ...

During recent excavations at Bahra 1 in Kuwait, archaeologists found a rare figurine, pottery evidence, and insights into the ...

Four LMU researchers have each been awarded a Consolidator Grant. Their projects deal with the statistics of social ...

In Mesopotamia, the birthplace of civilization, the earliest known writing system started around 3,000 BCE. Developed by the Sumerians and written on clay tablets, the first cuneiform is largely ...

Yet to historians and archaeologists, Babylon is a real bricks-and-mortar place at the center of the vibrant Mesopotamian culture that it dominated for so many centuries. The Amorites, including ...

At the Bahra 1 site in northern Kuwait, Polish archaeologists have discovered a clay figurine that is 7,000 years old, ...

The origins of writing in Mesopotamia lie in the images imprinted by ancient cylinder seals on clay tablets and other artifacts. A research group from the University of Bologna has identified a ...

At the Bahra 1 site in northern Kuwait, Polish archaeologists have discovered a clay figurine that is 7,000 years old and ...