When it comes to operating beyond the limits of the known world into the world of imagination, [the tablet] is indispensable, ...

What is the oldest gold artifact ever found, and was it part of a treasure hoard discovered in a cemetery in Bulgaria?

Something of a hidden gem, the Harvard Semitic Museum, founded in 1889, boasts more than 40,000 Near Eastern artifacts ... Ancient Egypt," "Monuments from Mesopotamia" and "Ancient Cyprus." ...

In fact, you can immerse yourself in the ancient world right here in your own backyard at the University of Saskatchewan’s ...

Ancient Babylonian world map from a clay tablet, nearly 3,000 years old, reveals a version of the Noah's Ark story and ...

On Tuesday, the Metropolitan Museum of Art said that ... part its investigation into the origins of artifacts held in its permanent collection. The Sumerian figurine, made of copper alloy and ...

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In 1860 Smith began spending his lunch breaks there to feed his growing hunger for the study of Mesopotamia ... most of the artifacts were simply left in storage at the museum.

Recent contemporary art and ancient artifacts from the museum’s permanent collection ... The ancient Kingdom of Egypt, Mesopotamia, Rome, Judea, remind us of the various wars and conquerors ...

A recent study of an ancient Mesopotamian sculpture using cutting-edge technology has provided information about the earliest ...