A 3,200-year-old Mesopotamian fragrance has recently been recreated in Diyarbakır, Turkey based on a formula left on an ancient clay tablet by a renowned female perfume maker of the time named Tapputi ...

Matteo is seven years old. He was born in the German city of Göppingen and his family hails from the village of Arbo in the Assyrian homeland of Tur Abdin. He is the son of Arsan Arsan and Madeline ...

This tiny fragment belied a find of Biblical proportions. Archaeologists in Jerusalem have unearthed a 2,700-year-old Assyrian inscription in clay that could shine a light on key events detailed in ...

Archaeologists in Jerusalem have uncovered an ancient Assyrian inscription that may shed light on historical events described in the Old Testament. The discovery, a tiny 2.5-centimeter pottery shard ...

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KAYSERİ, TURKEY—According to a Hürriyet Daily News report, three documents describing a local cheese have been uncovered at the site of Kültepe-Kaniş-Karum in central Anatolia. “It is understood from ...

New York: Basic Hachette, 2024. Pp. xx, 508+. Illus., maps, table, notes, index. $22.99 paper. ISBN: 1541605152 The Bad Boys of the Old Testament. Most of us are familiar with the later Assyrians as ...