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The Nippur Poison Tablet: Half Medicine, Half Exorcism
Inscribed in Nippur around 1800 BC, this terracotta slab pairs eight botanical prescriptions for acute poisoning with ritual exorcisms.
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The Last Song of Ur Was Staged
For nearly a century, the silver lyre of Ur was treated as proof of a peaceful mass suicide. Forensic re-examination revealed skull fractures that tell…
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Babylon's Worst Prison Break
In the 6th century BC, the Eanna temple complex in Uruk operated as a massive corporate state within the Neo-Babylonian Empire.
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4,000 Years Before CAD: Sumerian Blueprint Dynamics
Centuries before Vitruvius formalized Western architecture, builders in southern Mesopotamia were drafting proportional floor plans into wet clay with…
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Sumer’s 4,600-Year-Old Music Theory
Long before Pythagoras formulated the mathematical ratios of pitch, scribes in the city-states of ancient Sumer were systematically mapping acoustic…
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Seven of Eight Mesopotamian Plans Were Drawn to Scale
A number of clay tablets survive from southern Mesopotamia carrying architectural plans.
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Merit, Chantress of Amun
A coffin recovered at Dra Abu el-Naga, on the west bank of the Nile opposite Luxor, belonged to a woman named Merit who held the title Chantress of…
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The Circle at Chleby
Archaeologists working at Chleby in Central Bohemia have documented a circular enclosure roughly 230 meters across, defined by a ditch about two and a…
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11,000-Year-Old Composite Statue of Human Seated on Leopard Unearthed at Karahantepe
The 11,000-year-old composite statue discovered at Karahantepe, one of the remarkable sculptural finds from the site.
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Gold for the Living, Gold for the Dead
Two bodies of gold text survive from the ancient Mediterranean and they are often mentioned in the same breath.
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The Babylonians Measured Jupiter With a Trapezoid
A fragment of clay in the British Museum, written somewhere between 350 and 50 BC and found near the Esagila temple in Babylon, carries a calculation of…
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A Lament for Inanna, Written in Two Dead Languages
The tablet is clay, about ten centimeters by eight and two and a half thick.
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The Pottery That Was Never Midianite
A team led by Marta Luciani at the University of Vienna has analyzed several dozen Bronze Age vessels from the oasis of Qurayyah in northwest Arabia and…
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The Oldest Love Spell Was Not a Love Song
A small clay tablet in the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford, catalogued by Assyriologists as MAD 5, 8, carries roughly forty lines of Old Akkadian text.
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The Oldest City Map in the World
A clay tablet roughly the size of a hand, incised more than three thousand years ago, carries a plan of the Mesopotamian city of Nippur.
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New Study of a Hunnic-Era Grave in Kazakhstan
A young woman was buried on the Mangyshlak Peninsula in western Kazakhstan sometime in the second half of the fifth century or the first half of the…
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A Painted Slab From Wetar Island
A limestone slab painted with red concentric circles and radiating lines has been excavated at the Huknaur rock shelter on Wetar Island, in eastern…
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