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The people of Israel remained fragmented until the emergence of Moses. He began to reunite Israel under his leadership until ...

Nearly a third of the 1,500 Syrian antiquities trafficking cases documented by the group since 2012 have taken place in the ...

Ancient Greek mercenaries were a ubiquitous force on the battlefields of the ancient Mediterranean where they fought for ...

Would-be blockbusters like Furiosa and divisive efforts like Beau Is Afraid bombed at the box office but have all the makings of future cult classics.

Dating back to ancient Mesopotamia, cylinder seals were rolled across clay tablets as a signature for official contracts or receipts of sale. These seals were personalized to support the identity of ...

Prepare for the game. If you are playing with 3 players, remove the astrology cards with the numbers '4' and '5' written in the bottom right corner, and if you are playing with 4 players ...

The Centre of Excellence in Ancient Near Eastern Empires has published ... for many applications in computational Assyriology. However, the number of such texts from the Neo-Babylonian and Persian ...

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According to the Times of Israel, the number of tablets held by libraries ... Assyriologist Irving Finkel investigated ancient Babylon’s relationship with the spiritual and occult.

What it tells us about the past: This round clay tablet, which is in the collection of the Ashmolean Museum at the University of Oxford, is one of two dozen examples of ancient Babylonian ...