Nov 5, 2024 by News Staff

Administrative innovations in south-west Asia during the 4th millennium BCE, including the cylinder seals that were rolled on the earliest clay tablets,...

Dec 19, 2023 by News Staff

Reconstructing the behavior of Earth’s magnetic field during archaeological periods is crucial for both achieving a better understanding of the field...

Sep 25, 2023 by Enrico de Lazaro

The newly-discovered language, Kalasma, belongs to the Indo-European family. It was discovered thanks to a cuneiform text inscribed on a clay tablet from...

Jun 8, 2022 by News Staff

The 3,400-year-old settlement with a palace and several large buildings could be the ancient city of Zakhiku, believed to have been an important center...

May 11, 2018 by News Staff

A team of archaeologists and philologists from the Universities of Tübingen and Heidelberg, Germany, has identified the location of the ancient royal...

Oct 23, 2017 by News Staff

Excavations led by a University of Tübingen archaeologist at the site of a recently-discovered Bronze Age settlement in the Kurdistan region of Iraq have...

Jan 29, 2016 by Enrico de Lazaro

According to Prof. Mathieu Ossendrijver of Humboldt University in Germany, Babylonian astronomers used geometry to calculate the position of Jupiter —...

May 11, 2012 by Enrico de Lazaro

Archaeologists working in Turkey have found the evidence for a previously unknown ancient language which dates back more than 2,500 years, to the time...