In the British Museum in London collections, there is an extraordinary artifact known as Imago Mundi, or the "Babylonian Map ...

Tom is a writer in London with a Master's degree in Journalism whose editorial work covers anything from health and the ...

In the British Museum in London collections, there is an extraordinary artefact known as Imago Mundi, or the "Babylonian Map ...

In the third millennium BCE, Sumer fell to its northern neighbor, Akkad, which adopted cuneiform as a writing system and continued to conquer great swaths of Mesopotamia to create, what some consider, ...

In time Aramaic became the lingua franca of Mesopotamia, gradually replacing the Akkadian language. The transition was made possible because the two languages shared similarities. Also because the 22 ...

By early in the 3rd millennium, Semitic-speaking peoples had also become the dominant population in Akkad, that is, the northern part of southern Mesopotamia where the city of Kish, just south of ...

A learned man, he restored the region’s ancient architectural and cultural traditions, especially those from the Akkadian Empire, which had dominated Mesopotamia in the third millennium B.C.—a ...

Iraqi officials on Monday hailed joint efforts by the foreign and culture ministries that resulted in the recovery of some ...

Flora Saini (P.C.)Shrikant Verma (Ramesh Rajan)Vicky Arora (Bhargav Sharma)Manish Chaudhari (Gopal Tandon)Shishir Sharma (Hari Shukla)Mohan Agashe (Baba Ji)Sudhanshu Pandey (Shivam Jain)Swati ...

Franco-Lebanese jewellery designer Walid Akkad has reimagined animals as sculptural shapes in a new collection of rings, ‘Bestiaire’. Unveiled at the Paris art fair, Fine Arts Paris & La Biennale, the ...