The 1850 discovery of King Ashurbanipal's vast library of cuneiform tablets at Nineveh illuminated fascinating records and ...

The Carnegie Museum of Natural History has made the behind-the-scenes inventory of rare fossils available for public viewing ...

The five-week Semitic Sisters class is funded by the university's Faculty Dialogue Innovation Fund, designed to promote ...

The seminar examines femmes in novels and films who are labeled “irrational” when they refuse social conformity, ...

Arabic and Hebrew belong to the Semitic language family, a group of languages spoken primarily throughout North Africa and ...

These ruins of the city of Babylon in Iraq date to the Neo-Babylonian Empire (626–539 B.C.). A 22-inch-high basalt stela depicting Babylon’s king Nabonidus (r. 556–539 B.C.) shows him wearing a ...

Archaeologists return to Nineveh in northern Iraq, one of the ancient world’s grandest imperial capitals Archaeologists didn’t know what to expect when they began searching for a 2,700-year-old ...