It is one of the oldest and greatest stores of knowledge: a vast library of texts amassed by Assyrian King Ashurbanipal, who ruled ancient Mesopotamia about 2700 years ago. But after his death ...

In time, Assyria’s fearful reign receded into myth, and its arrow-like script ... in the 1840s and ’50s is the subject of “The Mesopotamian Riddle,” Joshua Hammer’s epic intellectual ...

Lara Quinn was probably the only one surprised when she won a slew of awards for her degree show at the Crawford College of ...

He was obviously a personification of the nomads of the desert and steppe. The Sumerian myth of Martu tells that he dwells in the mountains…he carries a weapon. He eats truffles in the foot of the ...