Scientists have proposed a way to use 4,000-year-old cuneiform tablets as a map to the world's ancient ... By extrapolating day-to-day itineraries of Assyria's merchants, the researchers teased ...

In his new book "Assyria: The Rise and Fall of the World's First Empire" (Basic Books), Yale professor Eckart Frahm offers a comprehensive history of the ancient civilization (circa 2025 BC to 609 BC) ...

A newly uncovered record of climate change provides a better picture of the factors that influenced both the rise and fall of the Neo-Assyrian Empire. Ashurbanipal, last major ruler of the Assyrian ...