Sitting in the British Museum is an archive of real questions that were asked by the king of Assyria (a kingdom in northern Mesopotamia) in the 7th century BC. All kinds of affairs of state were ...
"The fire baked the clay, preserving for millennia Ashurbanipal's knowledge and legend," says Zhang. Some tablets are labeled: Palace of Ashurbanipal, King of the world and King of Assyria.
Together, they tell of Assyria's dominance over Phoenicia, a collection of city-states along the eastern Mediterranean whose strategic coastal location and maritime trading prowess made it too ...
The service always includes one or more psalms. These ancient prayers, taken from the Old Testament, reflect the full range of human emotions and experiences; from the depths of anger, resentment, and ...