But these tablets weren’t strictly business—they also contained literature that lives on today, including the The Epic of ...
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Anunnaki: Sumerian gods or ancient astronauts?
Claims that the Anunnaki were extraterrestrials from a hidden planet called Nibiru are traced back to Zecharia Sitchin’s interpretations of Sumerian texts. Linguistic evidence, archaeology, and ...
At the site of the ancient Sumerian city of Girsu in present-day Tello, in southern Iraq, stands a mound known as Tablet Hill. In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, French ...
On May 2, 2003, shortly after the invasion of Iraq, London’s Metropolitan Police raided an antiquities dealer and seized eight artifacts they believed had been obtained through illicit channels. It’s ...
The archaeological site at Turkey’s Boğazköy-Hattusha, the former capital of the Bronze Age Hittite empire, is a hotbed of ancient languages. During excavations of the ruins, archaeologists uncovered ...
ALMODOVAR, Portugal — When archaeologists on a dig in southern Portugal last year flipped over a heavy chunk of slate and saw writing not used for more than 2,500 years, they were elated. The ...
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