The third, and most complex, with about 700 signs, would become known as Akkadian, named after a city-state that flourished in southern Mesopotamia between around 2300 and 2100 B.C., and used by ...

The ancient Assyrian language is classified as Akkadian; it was the language of the Assyrians and Babylonians, written in Cuneiform. To facilitate administrative tasks of the Assyrian Empire Aramaic ...

The mystery of cuneiform, the world’s oldest writing system, remained unsolved for centuries. It wasn’t until the mid-19th century, driven by groundbreaking discoveries in Mesopotamia, that a ...

The artifacts were excavated from a city dating back to the third millennium B.C.E. by researchers from Iraq and the British ...

This page introduces a new way of exploring lexical semantics in Akkadian. How to cite this portal: Heidi Jauhiainen, Aleksi Sahala, Tero Alstola, Sam Hardwick, Tommi Jauhiainen, Krister Lindén and ...

The UNESCO World Heritage Site of Boğazköy-Hattuša is located in the north of Turkey. It was once the capital of the Hittite ...